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From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: >Fault-tolerant Information Recall
Message-ID: <831@dgis.dtic.dla.mil>
Date: 9 Apr 90 19:01:22 GMT
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hargrove@bee.corp.sgi.com (Mark Hargrove) writes:

> A query language that did approximate matching for me
> automatically is a bit scary.  How would you control the degree of
>"approximation?"

And more than a bit scary on updates.  "Give the employees who work
in the shoe department a 10% raise" is the safe example.  "Give the
employees who work in the more deserving departments a 10% raise" is
the getting-interesting-time example.  "Loan the customers with
acceptable credit histories the money" is the fear and loathing example.

-- Jon
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