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Marcelo Cantos writes: > More important than any specifics, however, is the issue of what you > call a DBMS. To me, a DBMS is a database management system (seems > painfully obvious, but I think it bears repeating). You may argue > that a product is not a DBMS if it does not support feature X [...] A DBMS is something that manages data *and* passes the ACID test (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability). This isn't a question of "I want feature X" -- the ACID test is what distinguishes a DBMS from, say, the Unix file system (which can also manage data). All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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