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Title	A database, by any other name
Type	Opinion
Source	ITworld.com, Ebusiness in the Enterprise 09/02/2005
Summary	Isn't it funny that some of the most common words we use have the largest number of interpretations? I remember reading somewhere that the word "set" has the largest, um, set of interpretations of any word in English.In computing, there are few words more commonly employed than the word 'database'. For many years I thought I knew what that word meant, but now I'm not sure. continue

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