I don't mean to be over correct, but PeopleSoft is not a database. It is an application that sits on top of one or more databases in addition to many smaller apps.
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Carol E.B. Choksy
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> On Dec 13, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Luciana Duranti <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ok Ken Begley. Here are my views:
>
> -The database in question is PeopleSoft
> -The data in question is financial data only (for the sake of
> discussion) -There are no scanned images of actual invoices or anything else
> (for the sake of discussion) -Records - and parts of records - can be
> generated from the system. Things like: Annual General Ledgers; Bob's
> monthly expenditures on his company credit card
>
> 1. So, do you think our PeopleSoft database is a record?
>
> No.
>
> 2. Do you think there are records in PeopleSoft? Or are you
> sensible like me and think "No, there are potential records in PeopleSoft."
>
> I agree with you.
>
> 3. What would you say to Big Giant Finance Head, Mr. Snickers, when
> he says: "We don't need to generate an annual General Ledger because it's in
> PeopleSoft; we can generate it anytime we want to."
>
> If the form data, content data and composition data are fixed and stable so
> that it is guaranteed that the same query will always give the same result,
> he is correct. If not, he is wrong.
>
> 4. Bonus Question: what would you say to people who refer to
> PeopleSoft as "the database of record." (Full disclosure: My IT Person used
> this phrase and I said the term is halfway between meaningless and harmful)
>
> That they use the expression in the colloquial sense, meaning that somebody
> records something in it.
>
> Did you read the article Ken Thibodeau and I wrote on the concept of record
> according to InterPARES? It is here:
> http://www.interpares.org/ip2/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2_book_appendix_02.pdf.
>
> Luciana
>
>
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