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Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.databases.theory
Subject: Re: data management
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:40:54 +0300
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"David Cressey" <dcressey@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I think you're changing the subject.  I suggested that supporting searches
> was a reason (perhaps THE reason) for building a database.  You seem to be
> addressing the reason for building a DBMS.  It isn't the same.

Of what searches are we talking about ?
Searches in the database for *finding* data one needs ?
When you talk about databases, you include files in a file cabinet ?
I thought that indices were made for supporting searches.

> BTW,  enabling searches to find something is one way of supporting
searches.
> In fact, searches that don't find anything can only be said to be
productive
> if the fact that they didn't find anything carries some element of
> unexpectedness.

> This could bring us back to the curious incident of the dog in the night.

(silence)