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Glossary entry

Norwegian term or phrase:

datamengde

English translation:

data sets

Added to glossary by brigidm
Jan 28, 2007 12:09
17 yrs ago
Norwegian term

datamengde

Norwegian to English Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology)
IT solution. Sentence:

"Databasen skalerer opp til de største datamengder og mest kompliserte applikasjoner og rapporting av resultater for raskere returnering av informasjon."
Proposed translations (English)
4 data stocks
5 +5 data volume
5 quantities of data

Discussion

brigidm (asker) Jan 29, 2007:
No-one's mentioned "data sets". Which is actually what my technical dictionary says, and for which I got quite a lot of hits in conjunction with scaling up. I wasn't sure at first but now wonder whether that may be the correct translation. Comments appreciated.
Per Bergvall Jan 28, 2007:
Whether it's data volume or data quantity is immaterial - either is fine in a storage capacity setting, while in a transaction capacity setting, I'd understand huge data volume as many transactions, data quantity as biig data amounts in each transaction.
brigidm (asker) Jan 28, 2007:
Would a bit more context help? The previous sentence reads: "I databaselaget finnes SQL Server 2005. Denne databasen skalerer opp til de største datamengder og mest kompliserte og krevende applikasjoner, analyser av data og rapportering av resultater for raskere returnering av informasjon. " Then later, under "Konvertering": "Konvertering av de relativt store datamengdene er kritisk for prosjektets suksess".

Proposed translations

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data stocks

The term has been translated in Eurodicautum (Danish into English):

Subject: Automation - Computer Science - Data Processing - Information Technology (AU)
Documentation - Information (DI)

Definition: datamaengden i et system er maengden af de lagrede dataenheder, som man kan faa tilgang til inden for systemet.

Danish:
(1)
TERM datamaengde

English:
(1)
TERM data stock

(2)
TERM data base



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Note added at 21 hrs (2007-01-29 09:20:34 GMT)
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Yes, you are right, Brigid, there are 33,900 Google hits for "scales up" + "data sets". (I think it is one of these cases, where the author of the source doc made a bad choice; it could be a bad English into Norwegian translation of "datamengde"). The Danish equivalent of data sets is "datasæt", according to Euridicatum. "Data sets" has a different definition than "datamengde"/"data stocks". In www.thefreedictionary.com:
"Data sets": "A collection of related data records on a computer-readable medium, such as a disk."
Example sentence:

"MP3 Archiver" is a tool for managing and representing MP3 data stocks.

SAP BW also helped us migrate the olddata from PAISY to SAP R/3, to clean the data stocks effectivelyand efficiently.

Reference:

http://www.sharewareplaza.com/MP3-Archiver-download_21816.html

http://www.sap.com/usa/industries/banking/pdf/50047642.pdf

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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Hanne, and all contributors. I'm still convinced this is the correct translation. "
+5
4 mins

data volume

I don't in the least envy you the lingo struggle here - 'databasen skalerer opp til' is all but senseless - but at least data volume is pretty clear.
Peer comment(s):
agree Carole Hognestad
5 mins
agree Bjørnar Magnussen : Or maybe "volume of data" in order to avoid confusion with "data volume" as a unit of data storage, e.g. a hard disk drive.
15 mins
Sure it's ambiguous, as is the source. There is no way we can know whether 'datamengder' is the amount of data processed or the amount stored. The translation SHOULD be just as ambiguous. Chances are it's a storage thing, as that's what databases are for.
agree stephen mewes
1 hr
agree Soulkeeper : I agree: "volumes of data"
4 hrs
agree Roald Toskedal
8 hrs
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2 hrs

quantities of data

:)
Example sentence:

Full-text indexes in SQL Server 2005 can scale up to large quantities of data.

Reference:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/6/9/7691c609-72b0-473a-8f4c-65926d733a5d/IntDocMgmtSQL2005TCS.doc

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