intelligent database
<database> A database management system which performs data validation
and processing traditionally done by application programs. Most DBMSs provide
some data validation, e.g. rejecting invalid dates or alphabetic data entered
into money fields, but often most processing is done by application programs.
There is however no limit to the amount of processing that can be done by an
intelligent database as long as the process is a standard function for that
data.
Examples of techniques used to implement intelligent databases are constraints,
triggers and stored procedures.
Moving processing to the database aids data integrity because it is guaranteed
to be consistent across all uses of the data. Mainframe databases have
increasingly become more intelligent and personal computer database systems are
rapidly following.
(1998-10-07)
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