Peter Gonzalez wrote: > Tony, > Thank you for clearing up the issue of using EQUATES. I > was ready to pile on you along with Les Hewkin. We use > EQUATES and live by what they describe. I have learned > never to trust DICTS.
Wiping my forehead from the sweat. This medium easily allows for such misundertandings. I'll try to be more careful about how I word commentary in the wee-morning hours. > I always value your responses, since you where the head > guy at Pick Systems R&D. Keep writing to this list. > thanks. Thank you very much. About Pick Systems, I should clarify that I was not in their R&D/Engineering area, I was a support guy for a while and then QA Manager for a couple years, but I was always working directly with Engineering. Prior to PS I was doing some assembly work and I worked with most other MV variants for about 13 years before that. I wouldn't insult "Engineering-class" people by making anyone think I know these products at their level. I also served as Corporate Technical Account Manager, the technical arm of Sales, and after the change to Raining Data I served as DBMS Product Manager, where I later got cut by "the big RDpurge of 2001". These days I tend to comment more on the business aspects of MV, especially with U2 where I'm only qualified to discuss a few technical details based on occasional usage and research. To justify my existence here I've assembled a team of great people to provide U2 services, so if I say we can do something with U2, you can be sure it means "I" understand the architecture but that "we" as a team can do the task. Regards, Tony Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD .com > At 02:34 AM 8/12/2005 -0700, you wrote: >> I wasn't clear about that at all, sorry. What I meant >> was that experienced developers don't put a table of >> 50,000 invoice numbers into a single attribute in the >> customer master file, or even reserve one atb for open >> invoices and another one for closed, especially when >> either one of those atb's can expend beyond a couple >> thousand values. >> >> Equating a name to a dimensioned array element is >> absolutely standard and IMO preferred practice - sorry >> if that was confused. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
