For instance, a database administrator can mistakenly implement a security policy that affects all of users of the service but actually contravenes the policies or rules that some customers need to abide by (due to above-mentioned national or industry rules).

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Individual travellers seeking bespoke itineraries are on their own: there is, for instance, no catalogue or database of room prices for China's 4, 500 star-rated hotels.

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When a database is distributed, for instance, it becomes much more difficult to achieve the same kind of consistency or isolation that you can on a single machine.

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Mr. SOBEL: For instance, a citizen who has information about him or herself in this database is not entitled to get access to that information and is not entitled to correct any inaccurate information contained in the database.

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Dishwashers and water heaters that are programmed to do most of their high energy tasks at night, for instance, or Ford's Value charging system, which leverages a cloud database to charge electric vehicles when utility rates are at their lowest.

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For instance, she said, an employee ticking the wrong box when they enter your data into a database could mean a person ends up labelled as a former criminal or credit liability.

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