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| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of jpcarr@tredegar.com

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| > In my era, our database design was dictated by its use,
|
| ah, you hit a nerve on that one.  It is my belief that in
| OUR day,  we designed DB's for OUR use OUR program, OUR everything.
|
| Those days are over.  It's the user's data base.  They should have
| direct access to it, and you cannot predict their ad hoc uses
| from a myriad of interfaces.  The Joins, Views should be designed
| just as much for the End User's need as it is for OUR program's
| needs.
|
| And SQL will be used by all those PC based interfaces.

Can't agree more, John, with the above...!!  Except that this was true in my
shop back in '87.

That's why, I suspect, We were able to develop custom systems with little to
no payroll (at least I never saw much...;-).  We were the custodians of the
user's data, rather than the owners...

They helped (or called themselves, anyway...;-) a lot on testing program
outputs, because they knew the numbers and used them day-in and day-out.
They also did all the on-going user training and were responsible for
putting together user guides for the in-house systems (ie, there were
none)...


|
| Last post I swear.
|
| Respectfully
| John

You and me, both, Bro...;-)  Mebbe...!;-D



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