Re: RM's Canonical database (was: Bob's 'Self-aggrandizing ignorant' Count)

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:07:11 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <genew_at_ucantrade.com.NOTHERE> wrote:

>>The "middle tier" is a common layer of software presenting business objects and
>>associated rules, mediating all access to the database, and using which all the
>>enterprise's applications are written.
>
> A DBMS could easily fit that definition, except possibly the last
>one, and that one is the app language. (You need the app language so
>that you have a middle.)
>
>>Would that work for you as a working definition?
>
> No. After all, a DBMS is, by definition, intended to be between
>the data and the user.

In what way did I suggest that it wasn't between the data and the user?

User -> application software -> middle tier software -> dbms -> data

would be the picture I have in mind.

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