On 01/27/2014 07:19 AM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> 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.
Agreed, that thread had me diving back into my biology textbooks. Turns
out they only partially covered the topic.
>
> Ray.
>
>
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