Re: [Nolug] call for help: white papers to show my CIO regarding Linux, Unix & Oracle

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 12:57, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> At 08:52 PM 4/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > But databases are dynamic, even if no new applications come on-
> > > > line, and interactive queries are disallowed.
> > >
> > > Not always. Would a database on CD be dynamic? A database
> >
> >Well, no, because it is read-only.
>
> I wonder now what your definition of a database is. According to the
> definition that you seem to use, if I am given a CD that contains the US
> census data that is formatted into a series of normalized tables and an
> application that can be used to access and query this data I still do not
> have a database. What exactly do I have then? :)

What you describe would *definitely* be a database! Just not a dynamic
database. (It's as static as you can get...)

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