Maintaining databases

[Leonard Krishtalka]

>I think we've come full circle.  A group of scholars discussing the number
>of data that can dance on the head of a pin.

          I can only quote Arthur Miller (with thanks to Julian Humphries):

          "Data is alot like humans.  It is born.  Matures.  Gets married to
other data, gets divorced.  Gets old.  One thing that it doesn't do is die.
It has to be killed."
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Leonard Krishtalka                              phone:  913/864-4540
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