The Database View Let's move now to an examination of the relationship of documents to databases.
Documents can relate directly to databases in two main ways.
First, as the report or simple printout of a database. This is known as database publishing. Second, and more interesting, is the use of a database to hold the document content. The various components that comprise a document can be placed into a database. Each organization's needs and requirements must be carefully analyzed, and no one solution will fits everyone's needs.