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  Re: Database Piece Count
 
(...) This could be a zen-ish question, but do you mean inaccurate, or insufficiently precise? I think that there are situations where knowing that something is 800 +/- 100 is very useful in the general case (as long as it's ACCURATE, that is, as (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Database Piece Count
 
(...) I may be wrong, but methinks the only reason you jumped in here in the first place was because you thought it would make you look cool to talk about it because you've got special stuff set up for you and other people don't, and because you (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Database Piece Count
 
(...) I agree, and more importantly, it gives things a higher probability of being double-checked, since everything is more visible, which is one of the reasons this newsgroup exists. A real ticket system with groupware stuff would be much better, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Database Piece Count
 
(...) Dan doesn't need an unsolicited lecture about this from the sidelines. (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.database)
 
  Re: Database Piece Count
 
(...) It wouldn't work. It would get blocked. (...) Actually there are lots and lots of them, and there have been since 1994, but they tend not to stay up for very long, or have access restrictions, or aren't very flexible. (...) I get bcc'd on (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.admin.database)


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