Talk:Oracle Database: Difference between revisions

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This was the text in a separate article. I've removed it to here, and made the page a redirect to [[Oracle database]]. If you think that it belongs here, perhaps someone could insert it in the right place (I don't really have the know-how to judge). If you think that it deserves a separate article, then it could be Wikified and replaced. [[User:Mel Etitis|Mel Etitis]] ([[User talk:Mel Etitis|<font color="green">&Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf;</font>)]] 22:45, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

== Cut 'imprecision' out of the intro? ==

:''An Oracle database, strictly speaking, consists of a collection of data managed by an Oracle database management system or DBMS. The term "Oracle database" sometimes refers - imprecisely - to the DBMS software itself. The title of this article - and parts of the article content - perpetuate this error.''

I suggest that 'imprecisely' be changed to 'implicitly', and the rest of the intro reworded accordingly, for the following reasons.

# The introduction as it stands is needlessly long and does a bad job of actually explaining what the article is about.

# Since an Oracle database is one managed by the Oracle DBMS, the former term ''implies'' a tie to the latter, and it is this implication that the 'error' in language draws upon. People know what you mean when you talk about an 'Oracle database' and describe features of the DBMS. An NPOV hardliner would probably say that calling this an 'error' is a subjective judgement &mdash; that we should merely describe the live usage, not complain about it.

# It's just bad form to state in the first paragraph that our article is rife with error!

Comments?

-- [[User:Perey|Perey]] 18:44, 22 August 2005 (UTC)