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From: Ben Laurie <>
Subject: Re: Dismal failure
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:54:50 +0100


Camilla von Massenbach wrote:
> Graham said:
> > Ben Laurie wrote:
> > > Non-techies may struggle with the complete scheme, but surely we can
> > > have the simplified version (use a * for any characters you are unsure
> > > about) for them? The snag with simply marking the whole record, it seems
> > > to me, is that you then aren't giving any clue at all of what you aren't
> > > sure about - and worse, you aren't allowing appropriate matching for
> > > people doing queries. Even if we hide this stuff from (most) users, it
> > > seems to me we should have it in the underlying system.
> >
> > Ok, no problem with that.. We can still throw them into a separate
> > table as well as the main one so people can go and check them for us ..
> > or have a field in the main table so we can search on it ..
>
> Is this the same thing as producing a report when we want of things to be
> checked?

Yep!

Cheers,

Ben.

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