RE: What is a "database"?

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems to me that database administrators on other systems do what
programmers, operations managers, and OS/400 do on the 400.  They design
files and file systems(programmers), try to maintain the integrity of the
data(programmers and ops mgrs), and try to optimize performance (ops mgr and
OS/400.) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.goddard.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 7:44 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> 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
> _______________________
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> 
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