Re: data on CD (was New RISC OS Application)

In message of 23 Nov, Stewart Brodie <stewart.brodie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How much "random" data is there - approximately 25 million database
records worth that you just found on a CD that fell off the back of a
motorbike?

What I can't work out from all this fuss is why it was impossible to
write a query to select limited data from the main database.

Assuming the data was on some large relational database machine, it is
quite easy for a SQL practitioner to write a query to select part of it.
Why then did EOS (EDS?) quote a large sum which the deprartment refused
to pay and which led to the fiasco of sending all the data on the CD?
Was EOS (EDS?) on the make?

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