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Re: Does Codd's view of a relational database differ from that ofDate& Darwin? [M.Gittens]

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:59:52 GMT
Message-ID: <IDipe.1593625$6l.719448@pd7tw2no> 





Paul wrote:


> Mikito Harakiri wrote:

> 


>>Hear, hear! It totally escapes me how could somebody invent putting
>>nonumeric value ("not salaried") into numeric column. For all reporting
>>purposes unknown salary is salary equal to 0. 




> 

> 

> I disagree; suppose 90% of salaries are unknown. Someone does a quick

> query to get the total estimated salary bill, not realising this. They

> are going to get a shock when the real thing comes through!

> ...





they'll get a bigger shock when the business goes under.  if 90% of 
salaries are unknown, serves them right.  they have bigger problems than 
the database.



p
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