HyperDic: stovepiping

English > 1 sense of the word stovepiping:
NOUNprocessstovepipingretrieval of information from unconnected databases
English > stovepiping: 1 sense > noun 1, process
Meaningretrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers.
Broaderretrieval(computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory
Adjectivesstovepipedof or relating to data stored in separate databases

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