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Subject: other forth applications
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Date: 18 Sep 90 03:23:45 GMT
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 Date: 09-15-90 (12:46)              Number: 3786 (Echo)
   To: STEVE PALINCSAR               Refer#: 3768
 From: KENNETH O'HESKIN                Read: NO
 Subj: SOUNDEX                       Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 SP>research you get to use SOUNDEX when you use the indexes to the old
 SP>Censuses.  It's useful in consolidating the various attempts that wer
 SP>made at spelling foreign names.

         Agreed, SOUNDEX is a powerful and impressive tool for uses
         such as this. But like Zafar, when implementing databases I
         _wanted_ to find a legitimate application for it but couldn't.

         In a small operation where 3 or 4 people have a variety of
         tasks to do on a computer (ie: arn't bored to death doing
         mindless data entry for 8 hours every working day), and the
         databases arn't likely to be larger than a few thousand records
         anyway, there is not much need for this kind of tool. Errors
         are less likely to occur, and are usually caught and corrected
         by someone else.
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