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- From: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP (John Boyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Info needed for designing a Data Dictionary
- Message-ID: <159@ocdis01.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:10:15 GMT
- References: <C1698L.7J5@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <C1698L.7J5@unx.sas.com> saslbb@chestnut.unx.sas.com (Lisa Brown) writes:
- ->I am just getting started on a project which involves
- ->writing a data dictionary. If anyone knows of any
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- General Question: Is a data dictionary necessarily a structured file, to be
- manipulated by the database program itself, or is it simply an information
- table, or text file from which to obtain information. And yes, I realize
- the structuring the text of a document would produce a dbms definition
- 'table'.
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