Users Are the Reason
Users are the reason for the season—the season of designing, creating, implementing, and maintaining any database. The user's needs are taken into consideration when the database is designed, and the final goal in implementing a database is making the database available to users, who in turn utilize the database that you and possibly many others have had a hand in developing.
A common perception of users is that if there were no users, nothing bad would ever happen to the database. Although this statement reeks with truth, the database was nevertheless created to hold data so that users can function in their day-to-day jobs.
Although user management is often the database administrator's implicit task, other individuals sometimes ...
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