Re: JBase - Dictionary Item to Retrieve Entire Record

[Charlie Noah]

Spot on, guys. This sounds like someone didn't find out what the data would be used for and how it would be output before building the database and programming. Reminds me of the programming manager who said "You guys start cutting code and I'll go find out what they want". Programming is only a part of the process - asking questions, thinking and designing come first. But what do I know? How many years have I been doing this? ;-) Charlie On 10-13-2014 8:45 PM, Kevin Powick wrote: On Monday, 13 October 2014 20:44:44 UTC-4, Daniel Klein wrote: To be perfectly honest, you chose the wrong data structure Exactly.    instead of attributes, the log entries should be multi-values which would allow you to create a plain old dictionary item pointing to the attribute that contains the data. Or simply one record per log entry with the customer number, date, and time as attributes to provide sorting and filtering flexibility. 001 CustNo 002 Date 003 Time 004 LogMsg eg. SORT LOG-FILE WITH CUSTNO = "12345" AND WITH DATE GE "01OCT14" LOGMSG -- Kevin Powick -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum.   To post, send email to jBASE@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to jbase-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jbase+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum.   To post, send email to jBASE@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to jbase-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jbase+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.