Re: [Nolug] call for help: white papers to show my CIO regarding Linux, Unix & Oracle from Dustin Puryear on 2003-04-30 (nolugarchives)

From: Dustin Puryear <dpuryear_at_usa.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:26:35 -0500
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030430152551.02b44500@pop.netaddress.com>

At 02:38 PM 4/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > 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...)

Ah, I see. I misunderstood!

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Dustin Puryear <dustin@puryear-it.com>
Puryear Information Technology
Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting
http://www.puryear-it.com
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