Thanks for your advice. While we don't believe credibility is an issue
because we are dealing with totally verifiable facts, we will provide
details on the methodology in the redundancy report.
Stan Loo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicky Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: Capturing Duplicates
> Stan,
>
> Here's a crude but perhaps effective suggestion to add to all the
> ingenious methods suggested.
>
> Someone defending the status quo at your client's might want to claim
> your method of isolating dups is faulty but it's hard to argue with a
> TALLY of the source data which is supposed to be unique.
>
> set var vcmd = 'TALLY colname FRO table'
> outp dups.txt
> writ .vcmd
> &vcmd
> outp scre
>
> will give you a written and easy-to-understand report.
>
> Nicky
>
