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I am also perplexed by this. We were just bought by a huge conglomerate and they classified our jobs. Since I do all programming and all projects, I am now a database administrator and data mining expert. What is this data mining deal? I thought thats why the as400 was so cool. You had your data ready to be mined at any time by any program. ----- Original Message ----- From: <boothm@earth.goddard.edu> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 9:43 PM Subject: What is a "database"? > It is becoming clear to me that I don't know what a database is. I'd > thought it was the base of data that an organization accumulates, but now > I hear people speak of being a database administrator and there seems to > be clumps of these people around non-AS/400 machines. What is it they do? > _______________________ > Booth Martin > boothm@earth.goddard.edu > http://www.spy.net/~booth > _______________________ > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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