No argument but, as we all know, "Stuff" happens.
Here on "The List", we all have the benefit of long experience and a
very high set of quality standards. Not every shop enjoys these attributes.
Don't forget: the Titanic was built by people with high standards and
long experience. And the Space Shuttle was assembled from components
supplied by the lowest bidder! :-)
Rick
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Gerhard Adam wrote:
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?
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