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Consolidating data makes sense and taking it from sources you can't query makes sense, but once you put it into a source you can query, that sounds like a datab
by CyberDildonics 4y ago
Consolidating data makes sense and taking it from sources you can't query makes sense, but once you put it into a source you can query, that sounds like a database. I'm not sure why there is a different term here.
- adamc 4y agoThe database is often arranged and optimized differently than one used to support operations, and a lot of things are often done to make what would otherwise be long-running, slow queries faster -- e.g., aggregating or otherwise summarizing data likely to be queried in reports. But sure, it's still backed by a database.
- aidenn0 4y agoWe have multiple names at different levels of specificity for things all the time. I have a laptop and a desktop, but they are both "computers"