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Re: RM's Canonical database

From: Andrew McDonagh <news_at_andmc.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:21:30 +0100
Message-ID: <e88370$j54$1@news.freedom2surf.net>


Frans Bouma wrote:
> 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
>

:)

I feel a 'self-aggrandizing idnorant' quote coming from Bob any second now.... Received on Sun Jul 02 2006 - 04:21:30 CDT

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