[tcs-lc] Mispelling db response
Roger Hyam
roger at hyam.net
Mon May 2 09:21:01 PDT 2005
If you were querying a db and requested a wrongly spelled name (you
don't know it is wrongly spelled you are just passing a word) would you
expect to get back:
1) An object for the correctly spelled name - perhaps with the
misspelling as a note.
2) An object for the incorrectly spelled name with a pointer to where to
get the correctly spelled object.
3) Objects for both the correctly and incorrectly spelled names and a
link between them.
I think this is a matter for the db you are querying to decide *not* the
schema. Some dbs will be capable of doing some kinds of response others
capable of others. The schema is just the transport medium for this kind
of thing.
Of course the db might think it is a correctly spelled name and return
an object representation of it anyway.
Does this help in clarifying the debate on misspelling of names at all?
i.e. which ones of them will be created as objects and which will be
notes etc.
Roger
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