[Year 12 IT Apps] Qu A 15

Mark Scott msc at luther.vic.edu.au
Wed Nov 14 16:56:25 EST 2007


A claculation is the sound made when students try to do duck mental
arithmetic and rely on their claculators.
 
Mark Scott
 

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Now we have to add "claculations" to "refleact" as items that passed
through a data validation system. So validation does not ensure that
inaccurate data gets into a system, it only tries to do so.
 
:-)
Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood

 
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It prevents them being used as a number in claculations etc. 


Mark Scott
Luther college 

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[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Maggie Iaquinto
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When there are soft brackets and spaces, it must be text since text is
alphanumeric. 

Why no numbers for postcodes? 4 chars, limited range, all number.

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[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Keith Richardson
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I have a beef about this topic.
Some years ago I attended an advanced Access three day course to get my
head around this database program.
We were told in no uncertain way, that one should NOT use number as a
data type for phone numbers or postcodes etc. In fact it should only be
used when you intend doing mathematical calculations with it's contained
data further down the track.
Therefore, I choose A for Qu 15 (Part A), but in doing so remember one
or more of the VITTA practice ITA exams that indicated it should be
number.
What do others think?
Keith
Keith Richardson
ITA List Moderator
Head of ICT, Leibler Yavneh College
Elsternwick
Ph: 03.9528.4911
k.richardson at yavneh.vic.edu.au <mailto:k.richardson at yavneh.vic.edu.au> 

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