| It was more just that you don't seem to be interested in actually having a discussion, you would rather take shots at me, so why even try? But if you want a response, then okay, here it is: "If a user on a system expects a certain results set returned from a system call" Database queries and system calls are not the same thing. -When a user, let's say an SAP user, queries his system, let's say for some customer information, That information may or may not exist in SAP. SAP may make a connection to a middleware layer to retrieve specific information. This middleware layer may gather the pertinent information from various other backend systems, whether they be a database or flat files or some custom application that sits on the backend that takes requests and returns data. So, when the user makes a system call (semantics here, maybe you are thinking of a low level system call) s/he may be actually accessing dozens of systems without even knowing. For all s/he knows, they just clicked okay and expect a result to be returned, when it doesn't properly, there's a problem e.g. an idex issue on some backend system "and it doesn't return that expected results set, it's broken and not working properly, regardless if it's just an index is out of date. The backend functionally is considegreen a blackbox to the frontend user." The backend of an application is the database, the front-end is the GUI and the corresponding code that interfaces with the backend, not the user. - Yeah, sure, but 100% of the time. This may be true for a single application, when talking about distributed systems, a backend could be various things, not necessarily just a database. The frontend user is the person that would sitting down at the computer interacting with the frontend GUI
"So I agree with you, but I am saying, trust me, in the real world, if an index is off, it's the same thing to say it's broken from a frontend user."
Front-end user again? - Not sure what you are trying to get at? "assumed you would understand what I was talking about since you seem to be an expert. But what do I know? I only work for the Department of Defense designing Enterprise Level software applications." The other programmers must laugh in your face. Designing software applications for the DoD isn't much to brag about. At least I never have. - No, actually, I haven't had too many people laugh at my face, maybe they do it behind my back?? The current project I am on is extremely exciting and dynamic. Maybe you've been on a bad project with the DOD, but Distributed System Development is extremely fun and challenging. I like it, so I guess that's all that matters. Although, I am about to roll off the project and work on some B2B Webservices type stuff, I am excited about doing that as well.
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