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RE: FN-FORUM MySQL Question
date posted 12th April 2001 18:07
OK...I know...It's my fault...I started all of this...
I think I will have a tick box which I will translate into 0/1. The only
place where I am going to be asking for names is for an email/info request
type thing and primarily, this site will be English for use in the UK.
Hopefully if it works well and finds a market, I will look into developing
it for foreign markets (starting with English speakers probably).
As for the name request thread that emerged. I know we are all meant to be
understanding...all meant to be together....all just good happy chums... I
am firstly A YORKSHIREMAN, secondly an ENGLISHMAN and thirdly BRITISH. I
used to work for many years with many European countries and I have no
problem with the individuality of any country. I think that what is
happening more and more is the UK is being expected to excuse itself for
being who it is.
I am not sure on the feelings of others in the group, but I was (until
recently) proud of my country and my heritage. I am not interested in
laying down what little we have left so some other country can tell us what
we can and can't do... I know this probably sounds racist, but I am truly
not that way. I am also not a believer in violence, but my grandparents
fought in the world wars, this was a war about power and control. Now some
45+ years later we have no real manufacturing base left, we have a foreign
royal family (to all intents and purposes). We have no nationality, so how
can we have national pride.
The British empire and national pride died and were buried many years ago.
we just didn't realise it.
Regards
Darren Spink
P.S.
Do you think under new EU rules...they will have to rename the Genesis Album
"Selling England by the pound" to "Selling England by the 400g" ??
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 12 April 2001 10:15
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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM MySQL Question
I believe that the original question was about how to store a boolean value
in the back end database. Peter prefers Y/N because when most people look at
the raw data they will find this easier to scan. However, using a "native"
boolean value has the advantage that the database will process it more
efficiently, and most database management tools and programming interfaces
will as well.
I think Peter's preference probably derives from the specific databases and
tools he has personally used. Mine derives from having international clients
with over sensitive and illogical foreign employees. After all, the field
name/tag is going to be in English, so what are they on about anyway?
But I would also point out that any decent development environment SHOULD be
able to display the "raw" data from a boolean field in any way the
developer/user prefers (or at least in an accepted standard format for the
language being used, and with the ability to translate the field name).
Regarding the people naming sub-thread, I think we are discussing Engish
language field tags, so would question the relevance of non-English speaking
naming conventions? Personally I prefer "Surname" and "Forenames" on English
language input forms. I would be interested to hear which Engish speaking
users might object to this?
David Nye
http://dnye.com
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