In article <45EFE705.2030104@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: % http://www.thestar.com/News/article/189175 % % "For instance, in some cases the field for the social insurance number % was instead filled in with a birth date." % % Unbelievable. Sixty years of electronic computing, fifty years use in % business and the "professionals" who built the tax system for a wealthy % democratic country didn't use data types. To be fair, this is not "the tax system". It's a staging database used for electronic filing, and it's pretty common to use typeless databases in the first stage of that sort of application. -- Patrick TJ McPhee North York Canada ptjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
