Your reply reminded me of a problem I ran into long ago. Although it was Oracle, my thoughts were similar to your questions. It was a big table that became...

I hope you have happily arrived home in the meantime. Some thirty years ago, I saw my last connection passing next to our bus, and I had to walk 10...

I hope you have happily arrived home in the meantime. Some thirty years ago, I saw my last connection passing next to our bus, and I had to walk 10...

I've never been to Las Vegas. I'm not too fond of crowded and noisy places. Hills, forests, my parents' garden patio, with a glass of red and a good book,...

Not Microsoft, but another big one. I bought a program, then another one, then another one from that company. That's OK; I thought it would be auto-renewed on three dates....

This problem, either on the legal or the quality/security side, cries for proper regulation. With the growing use of AI  and cloud-based solutions, this problem will be much more severe...

roger.plowman (8/4/2016)

As for the poor Hungarian poster, my condolences! In that case you'd almost certainly need a "mode" field of some kind, to indicate what kind of name you're dealing...

We would just put whatever name is to be displayed first in the first name column and whatever name is to be displayed last in the last name column. We...

1. The full_name column may not a practical one. It is brings more problem than profit, if you think about the possible sequences of the first_name and last_name it is...

I'd be very careful with the "duplicate" deletion. When our old and new systems merged "generated" such records. But the identification process was very difficult. The name is not a...