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- From: jim@uvmark.uucp (Jim Todhunter)
- Subject: Re: Looking for a USABLE database
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.142338.80025@uvmark.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:23:38 GMT
- References: <4352@disuns2.epfl.ch> <1992Jul28.140922.8573@sdf.lonestar.org> <4430@disuns2.epfl.ch>
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- In article <4430@disuns2.epfl.ch> baechler@liasun7.epfl.ch (Emmanuel Baechler)
- writes:
- >In article <1992Jul28.140922.8573@sdf.lonestar.org>,
- abledsoe@sdf.lonestar.org (Al Bledsoe) writes:
- >
- >|> > this is totally unacceptable: labs frequently add new tests, or
- >|> > add COMBINED tests (based on existing ones), and this means the
- >|> > addition of new columns.
- >|>
- >|> Uh, have you read anything about relational database theory?
- >
- >I am definitely not an expert about relational database theory (my own
- >field is AI) but I have read quite a bit about that. The fact is that
- >the doctors and the people of the labs regulary create new analyses
- >and want to integrate them in their result sheets, period. They did not
- >hear anything about relational databases, they don't want to hear
- >anything about that, they want to be able to enter new columns on their
- >result sheets and these result sheets are represented by tables in most
- >of the labs.
- >
- > [ ... text deleted ... ]
- >--
- >Emmanuel Baechler. | Tel.: ++41-21-693-2732
- >Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle | e-mail: baechler@lia.di.epfl.ch
- >Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | or: baechler@liasun6.epfl.ch
- >MA-Ecublens | Standard Disclaimer
- >CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
- >
- >Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
-
-
- I have to agree with Mr. Baechler. All to often, those of us who write
- software assume it is acceptable for users to adapt to our view of the
- RIGHT way to do things in an automated environment. We should view our
- task as providing a RIGHT solution that conforms to the way users do things.
-
- --
- James W. Todhunter, Director, Research & Development
- jim%uvmark@merk.com
- VMark Software, Inc. 30 Speen Street Framingham, MA 01701-1800 USA
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