Hi,
The glossary in the OGSA Data Architecture document currently defines "data set" as:
"An encoding of data in a syntax suitable for externalisation outside of a data service, for example communication to/from a data service.
Examples include a WebRowSet encoding of an SQL query result set, a JPEG encoded byte array, and a ZIP encoded byte array of a set of files."
Is this correct?
I think this definition may have come from DAIS. Have to be slightly careful as the term is used in various other places (hence the term is slightly over-loaded), for instance: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/ADO.NET/Datasets-in-Microsoft.Net/ and this is only one other reference to it ... Mario +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+