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- From: dave.snyder@snide.com (Dave Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Fixes to Informix-4gl
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:48:03 -0500
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- Quoting Stuart Hemming...
- }
- } In-Reply-To: <1gor7vINN4u9@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> dave.snyder@snide.com (Dave Snyder)
- }
- } TITLE: Re: Fixes to Informix-4gl
- }
- } In <1gor7vINN4u9@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Dave Snyder writes:
- }
- } [Stuff deleted]
- }
- } > Sounds great... but what happens if the data isn't sorted alphabetically?
- } > An example that comes to mind is in a medical system that I just wrote.
- } > There is a pop-up window of languages that people have to select from.
- } > In our area, ENGLISH is first, SPANISH is second, FRENCH third, etc. I
- } > display this by using an internal sequence number assigned by the customer.
- } > Now although there are only about a dozen or two languages and "page ahead"
- } > would only have to be hit twice, how would this work if you had many rows?
- }
- } I think this one should be looked at more in the principle of the
- } thing rather than in the execution of the given example. Could it not
- } be arranged so that the displayed list was indexed on some column and
- } have the "page ahead" funtion work on that column?
- }
- Probably not. The page ahead function works because the data is sorted
- somehow. If you were to use another column that was sorted for the page
- ahead to index, you would then have to say, "What was the code for Russian?"
- Needless to say, the end-user doesn't need anymore codes to memorize; the
- patient speeks Russian, I want to select Russian!
-
- I'm not knocking this routine, it's a wonderful idea and it can be used
- 90% of the time. I just wanted to point out that there is that 10% :-)
-
- DAS
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