On 3/13/19 1:15 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > Also remember that data is only as reliable as that which is entered. > The third law of thermodynamics states it only gets worse over time.
A database rule I encountered and seems to be true is a corrolary to GI-GO: A databbase's data are only good if the people entering the data are those that are going to use it. If you have rooms full of bored clerks typing it in on terminals, who have no idea what it means, and could not care less, the data will be bad to begin with. And, as you said, its entropy will only increase. I remember a database of telephone directory entries that someone had run a program on to improve it. One entry was TOYS R US that got corrected to TOYS R UNITED STATES -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey ^^-^^ 14:35:01 up 10 days, 22:38, 2 users, load average: 4.29, 4.59, 4.64 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
