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From: "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt@tincat-group.com>
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Subject: Re: cdt
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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam@vrijdag.org> wrote in message
news:40c32cad$0$33919$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Here are some proposed changes to the glossary from recent
> discussions.
>
> Please take only one or two items at a time for easy
> harvesting :-)
<snip>
ADDITIONS (comments welcome)

> [change management]
> The organization of data within a database can and will
> change with circumstances. A DBMS should provide
> facilities for changing the underlying structure
> without affecting what is already stored.
> For example, you can add a column to a table without losing
> what is already there.

I'll start with this one.  There are several similar terms: maintainability,
agility, flexibility, adaptive that are all more obvious choices for talking
about the data organization with repect to changes.  I have always used the
term "Change Management" to be a process employed by people.  Is this really
an industry-accepted use of the phrase?  --dawn