Belinda is concerned

[William Park]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:39:02PM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> Michael Wilson <mjw7739-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > I read somewhere that the system they implemented
> > doesn't take into account that more than 1 person in a
> > region can have the same name, who the heck designs a
> > system with a name as a primary key?
> 
> The same people who designed the gun registry?  And, of course, you can't
> simply retrofit the database with a unique primary key, you need to redesign
> from scratch and provision new hardware.

This may be off-topic... whouldn't it be easier just to have flat text
file, one line per record, comma/tab separated fields, etc, etc. ?

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