Thursday, March 12, 2009

Ab-normalization at Experts Exchange - Part 2

When I see a question with a statement like:
"if someone chooses Mike Smith from the drop-down field, then Mike Smith will also automatically be entered in the other field?"

Then my first question would be why a firstname and lastname are stored in one field.
The next question would be where this drop-down field is getting it's information from.
And also a question why having this mechanism in place, while the proper sequence would be to have the user first determine or a person is already registered, before starting to enter a new one...

None of these questions are stated in the "answer comment", the questioner gets a simple answer with a Move statement, even without referring to a test and/or warning when there's already data in the target field that could be overwritten.

Another fine sample of the way you can be "helped" when paying for an answer.

Nic;o)
Still proud to be suspended from this "quality site" where wannabee experts rule and "quality" is just another word from the dictionary.
(The question can be found at: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Q_23885899.html or at http://www.altict.nl/Q_23885899.html when you have no free access)

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