Re: 0.99999998 (was: Unknown SQL)

On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 04:00:18 GMT, "David Cressey" <david_at_dcressey.com> wrote or quoted :

> People who don't understand this
>can learn all the SQL, or all the Java, or all the COBOL they want, and
>still screw up with the use of data.

I think the other thing that comes with ripe old age is realising the importance of validating the hell out of your data BEFORE letting it into the database. Cleaning it up later is much much harder. Not cleaning it up and standardising it to the max from the getgo is just begging for headaches down the line.

For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html If you don't see what you were looking for, complain! or send your contribution for the glossary.

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Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
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