Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Richard Huxton 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.
>
> This is Unbelievable? This is commonplace.

I need to start adding 10% on my fees for things like "use of types".

I would put some foreign-key constraints in my current project, but I
don't think the client can afford it ;-)

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd