[Year 12 IT Apps] database convention - postcodes as a text field in databases

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I guess there is nothing like asking the source for information, somebody could write a letter to the UK post office for their final word or send them a polite Telex .o(sounds of crickets chirping)

I am often at pains to show students that the gems in Wikipedia are the links to the references cited at the bottom of each page and the often vibrant and illuminating discussions on the talk pages. Gets you right to the source documents and the issues to be unpacked about any topic.

Regards Roland

Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader 
Keysborough College DEECD
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

On 30/05/2013, at 11:25 AM, "Watson, Donald R" <watson.donald.r at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Exactly
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Scott
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> Hi
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> Now do we have a debate about the worth of Wikipedia as a source of information?
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> Maybe another day.
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Watson, Donald R
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> Hello All,
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> The link below pretty much says it all.
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> The convention is that postcodes should defined and be input as text.
> Of course there could be circumstances in which a specialised database might need to use some ‘regional intelligence’ based on a postcode.
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> A mail drop to all postcodes between 3850 and 3860 covers my area of Gippsland for example. It saves time on listing 100’s of towns in a complicated case or nested if statement.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom
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