Re: Using the catalogue

On 21 Nov 2005 14:23:30 -0800, "Carl Federl" <cfederl_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>Given: relation Person (Name, Weight, Designation, ... )
>
>If someone asked for all Persons whose Name was the same as their
>Weight, what would be your response ?
>
>On comparing Person.Name to Person.Designation: If "King" = "King" then
>is "King" = 'König" or 'König" = "King" ? 'König" is German for
>King.
>
>Is comparing Persons.Name to Persons.Designation any different ? It
>might be amusing but not logical.

     It is logical. It might not be useful, but it might be. Let the user make that decision.

     "I remember thinking that the person had the same surname as his job title, but I can not remember what that was. You have the data in the database. Can you find it for me?"

     Do you want to have to say no?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Mon Nov 21 2005 - 23:41:31 CET