That was bad programming practice even then. Especially in that timeframe when there's no question that the access method would've kicked back an error condition for attempting to replace a duplicate record. My point here, is that this is not a technology issue, but a "people not doing their job" issue.
>It happened in the late 1970's. > >>We had an incident in Illinois where a license plate number was >>re-assigned but the database wasn't updated because the plate already >>appeared in the database. An innocent man was killed by State Police >>because the previous holder of that number was a badly wanted felon that >>was characterized as "Armed and Dangerous". You should have seen how >>fast the fertilizer hit the Westinghouse! But the worst damage was >>already done. >> > >>20-20 hindsight? >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
