Re: I have read tons of theory...but still...one question
From: Kostas <noemail_at_noemail.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:29:21 -0400
Message-ID: <10n0d0ma8jb3ab6_at_corp.supernews.com>
> I'd like to strongly suggest that mispellings are a user interface issue
> and
> NOT a database issue. I think there's value in keeping those two groups
> of
> issues separate. That's not to say your choice is the wrong one, but it
> ain't database theory that's going to address that.
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:29:21 -0400
Message-ID: <10n0d0ma8jb3ab6_at_corp.supernews.com>
>
> I'd like to strongly suggest that mispellings are a user interface issue
> and
> NOT a database issue. I think there's value in keeping those two groups
> of
> issues separate. That's not to say your choice is the wrong one, but it
> ain't database theory that's going to address that.
What you say makes good sense and further clarifies another ambiguous issue
for me.
Thank you.
> BTW, there are ways to design the UI so that its dropdown list is built
> from all the valid (and correctly spelled) values.
Sort of like MS Access' lookup tables? But if so isn't the database in this case doing internally what I was doing externally by explicitly specifying the lookup table?
Cheers!
Konstantinos
Received on Fri Oct 15 2004 - 22:29:21 CEST