Re: How many names and addresses can you have for ID card
- From: Alex Heney <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:26:29 +0100
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:25:52 +0100, MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:20:24 +0100, Alex Heney <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:42:07 +0100, MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:36:09 +0100, Alex Heney <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
They will either have it set up to use foreign alphabets, or they will
do as virtually every other system in the country that processes names
does, and will Latinise all names.
One thing they could do is have one table of all common surnames and
another for first names, then just store foreign keys in the master
record. Think of the thousands of John Smiths out there. Then they'd
only need a much smaller additional table to list unique names.
They could.
It is unlikely though, because the two levels of searching/indexing
then required would probably average out slower than the a single
level on all names.
It's ok. I had my obfuscatory hat on - to confuse the GCHQ people.
One thing we can be sure of: However the Home Office commission the
database software to be written, other countries would do it
differently. Britain's approach is always to do it on the cheap, cut
corners and apply Elastplast thinking as mission creep becomes
inevitable. But a German database, or an American one, would be orders
of magnitude more robust than anything Britain could achieve. This is
not because we don't possess the database skills, far from it. But our
mindset is not one for thinking long-term.
I agree about ours, but not about other countries.
What, you don't think a German or American-designed database would be
more robust?
Not necessarily.
Any given example might be, or ours might be better.
I certainly don't think the US government have any better record than
ours of bringing in IT projects on time or on budget, or without too
many faults.
I don't know about Germany, and whether their reputation for
efficiency extends to government IT projects.
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