Management by Numbers: Paying excessive attention to quantitative management criteria, when these are non-essential or cost too much to acquire.

用数字管理(Management by numbers)：过于关注非本质而又不易取得的数字指标。

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Transactions are real world entities that can be expressed in the form of text, numbers, or both, to be processed by a database management system.

事务是以文本、列（或同时使用两者）的形式表现的来自真实世界的实体，将由数据库管理系统处理。

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One of our biggest complaints about management is their tendency to run companies "by the numbers."

一个我们最大的质疑就是关于他们试图“通过数字”建立管理机制的问题。

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For better or worse it seems brand managers continue to look through the lens of community management by the numbers, or more specifically, a magic number for likes on Facebook or followers on Twitter.

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But in southern Africa, decades of protection and management have seen numbers rising by about 4% per year.

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Question for the day: When you invest in stocks, do you go strictly by the numbers, or do you also consider management quality?

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