On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:17, Bill Mullen wrote: > I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by > setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last 90 > days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough > transactions out of the database to keep up with the new transactions > being added, all while keeping their online storage capacity fairly > static and predictable.
It's not that even -- online, a full 18 months of data is available; I am only allowed to access it 90 days at a time. The 90-day window can be *anywhere* in the total dataset; I just can't pull more than a 90-day chunk of it at any given time. > If there's one thing that bankers like, it's "static and predictable" > ... especially when it comes to expense items. ;) Sounds like a religion. > Years ago, before online banking existed, I was a mainframe operator for > a statewide bank in Concord. We had the same policy then for the account > history data that we made available to the tellers over the online > system - current statement period plus the last two, that's it; > everything beyond that was archived. Disk packs aren't cheap. :) Yes, I recall disk packs with glee. I wrote a driver for one way back when, back in 1980. The drive itself was the size of a washing machine, and the disk pack itself was about as tall as, say, a typical monitor is today. And no, I did NOT make the drive dance across the floor. Our clients would not have been happy about that! :-) -- Fred -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- place "[hey]" in your subject. The mass of humans on planet Earth -- regard them as the ebbing seas in the winds of change. They ebb, they flow, they know not where to go. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
