OT: First Names with Spaces

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu May 19 17:40:35 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:02:52PM -0400, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> In Italy some people's formal names have a space in them. My
> grandmother's name in the records is for example "Anna Maria".
> "Maria" in this case is not a middle name. Can most databases today
> handle a space in the datafield?

Databases can handle anything you want pretty much.  It entirely depends
on what the person writing code to use that data decides to handle.
Some developers think they know better than reality and decide to check
things that shouldn't be checked and reject things they believe to
be wrong.

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Len Sorensen
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