On 27/01/2014 15:16, Edson Richter wrote:
> Em 27/01/2014 10:42, Andreas Kretschmer escreveu:
>> Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:
>>
>>> On 27/01/2014 12:11, Manoj Soni wrote:
>>>> Name, Age and Sex
>>>> Which tutorial, may help me in this regard.
>>> I did a Google search on "tomcat netbeans postgresql tutorial" and
>>> turned up some likely-looking links.... should work for you too. :-)
>> Right, and as a hint: dont store the AGE of a person, store the
>> birthdate instead.
>>
>>
>> Andreas
>
> Another hint: don't store "sex" (do/don't do?), but "gender" (even
> better if tristate: male/female/not informed or "other").
> I already had lots of trouble with customers asking me to adjust my
> systems to this new "situation", then I've to change systems and
> database...
+1 to this... there was a lengthy thread on this list some years ago on
this very subject, and it was an eye-opener to see the possibilities
that emerged.
Ray.
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