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  • Subject: Re: What is a "database"?
  • From: "Karl Lauritzen Jr." <klauritzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 11:04:27 -0600

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.


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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?
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