if you’re going to work with databases, you probably ought to know something about data. In particular, we don’t put data directly into a database; we have to encode it and represent it in a format which a machine can handle. Encoding data existed long before we had computers, even today in coding medical data using various systems the separate job for medical records and profession in and of itself.
Yet, in spite of the fact this is the fundamental concept in our trade, almost nobody gets a class on various types of scales, measurements, encoding schemes, etc. nobody