RE: Strategy for navigation & validation

[Jason Dawes]

At 08:12 PM 3/31/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, DaveM wrote:
>
>Remember that Scott said that an empty ZIP field would take the SQL server
>down. Given that assumption, I think this does seem a valid case for a
>forcing function: a technological limitation exists, so the human factors
>must take it into consideration, and make the limitation palpable (to
>perhaps use a poor term) by the user.
>

Excuse me?  Whats wrong with the conduit doing some data validation?  After
all, the PC is supposed to have more processing power.  Hell, whats wrong
with only marking records "dirty" if they are valid in the first place?  Or
having a "valid record" category?  You people are all making a mountain out
of a molehill.