Re: What is a "database"?

You were being paid too much for the lower job classes.  They just put 
you into the higher ones to not exceed the pay scale for your true job 
class.  Don't make too many waves at the company.  :-)





klauritzen@natlloyds.com on 12/29/99 12:27:10 PM
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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.


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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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