Re: single application support

In article <994erc$m7t$1_at_news2-2.kornet.net> "HanJeong Lee" <stststst_at_kt.co.kr> writes:

   I am very curious to know how many DataBase    Management System in use today support only    one application.
   If the percentage is over 70 % can it be    safely concluded that we have wandered    away from the orginal concept of "database"?

I guess that you would need to look at the size of the organization. I've done work for companies that have just started to realize what a database truely is and the people who implemented their systems did really know what they were doing. IMHO, this is due to the "instant programmer/developer" tools out today (ie: MS Access, VB, etc) that allow people with out an understanding to create applications. These tools are not inherently bad, but the way that they are marketed leads many to believe that they don't need to know what they are doing before they begin progects. But then again, you could call that job security for independent contractors who can fix these creations.

In an organization with at least one DBA, teh DBMS should be being used properly, that is one installation of <your favorite DBMS> with many databases inside, and many applications running against them.

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