This is so true! Remember Y2K? That was caused by a three-letter blue company. They wanted to save 1 (one!) byte by not storing the century in critical operating system fields. The comments were (1960s) "Well, we won't be around to fix it...wink, wink, nudge, nudge." I was. Most companies got through it with few problems --- a tribute to the programming staff.
Ted On 09/01/2012 07:51 PM, Simon Slavin wrote: > On 1 Sep 2012, at 11:34pm, "Ted Rolle, Jr." <ster...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Back in the olden days we predicted a database's storage to be about 5 >> times the size of the data. >> By 'olden' I mean IBM's IMS, VSAM, DB2. ..., 70s, 80s. > Back in the old days you had 72 or 80 columns to a punched card, and any > columns you didn't use were wasted. You could double your database > capacity/speed/cost by saving one bit per record. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
