< shrug > No, so far as I understand...Enterprise data and data warehousing very much relies on the longevity of data beyond any particular application. I don't know that this is how a majority of development has been done--how many times have I gone into a client and converted their data into my system? Well if we detach the data from the application, which is sorta how I visualize Oracle databases, then the data is most import from all perspectives...not just our clients ;-)

I guess I'm a sudden convert as the day wears on. I think it's helping me to separate tiers. Because, in my extremely remedial understanding...isn't this what a data tier is all about?

< Stop me before I abuse a concept even further! :)) >

>Hi Nancy,
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>But wouldn't be the case that that data which outlives its (original) application would either:
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>1) become a part of an application succeeding the prior one, or...
>2) become used strictly in archival (ie read-only) functionality?
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>In other words, I don't see why this would be an issue.
>