Hi Paul,
> Yes, but how long before you get:
> "Great job, Martin, but the data gets out of date, so please could you
update this every hour,
> with no downtime? Don't worry, we don't need this straight away -
Monday will do."
Umm, that's just got a nasty ring to it!
> [I still think it's wrong to have a table with 800 columns and your
users could probably
> handle the data better another way - I wonder what the column names
are - I suspect
> normalisation isn't really an issue here (not a criticism of you
BTW).]
Actually the statistician and her minions seem very happy with it. So
I'm presuming they are loading this into some kick arse stats package
which can preduce meaningfull employement If not meaningful results.
Marty
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