Re: RM's Canonical database

Bob Badour wrote:

> Ron Jeffries wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:27:17 +0200, mAsterdam
> > <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Robert Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > > ... business rules don't belong in the database.
> > >
> > > What, in your opinion, does belong in the database?
> >
> > Uh ... data?
>
> 'Data' is information represented suitably for machine processing. In
> what way are business rules not information or not represented
> suitably for machine processing?

        Bob, are you now suggesting that you don't know the difference between data and information? No don't bother looking up a Dijkstra quote on that.

                FB

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