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  • Subject: Re: Year 2K - how to shake down your system
  • From: DAsmussen@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 20:03:23 -0400 (EDT)

Paul,

In a message dated 97-08-16 14:27:12 EDT, you write:

> Dean wrote:
>  
>  >Vernon,
>  >
>  >In a message dated 97-08-15 11:45:30 EDT, you write:
>  >
>  ><<snip>>
>  >> Would you believe, I know a company !-) that has separate fields for
year,
>  >>  month & day?
>  >
>  >Many of us do, my friend.  Most are too embarrased to admit it :-)!
>  
>  Well, c'mon, third normal...  I mean...   well, -you- know!!

Well, as I've stated in the past, there's nothing NORMAL about third normal!
 All of these IDEALS were established by the "technointelligencia", most
DECADES before the hardware would support ANY of them.  Now that the hardware
supports SOME of them, companies are trying to embrace the full set.  I still
say, take the IDEAL and back off until it actually WORKS...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

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