rmechaber (8/31/2010)
I just spent 2 weeks(!!) cleaning up a lookup table in a third-party ERP application that allowed (and still allows, but for the now-rescinded, application level user permissions) free-form entry for states and countries.Fun fact: the United States of America has 786 states within its borders, including China, Formosa, Bhopal, and Chicago.
Referential Integrity??? "We don't need no stinkin' referential integrity!!!":smooooth:
Rich
Oh I feel your pain. We have a free-form "Occupation" field on one of our main Sales applications, so I've just spent weeks building a lookup table to make some sense of the thousands of mis-spelled and misleading entries.
My particular favourites are "HR Minger" - I can only assume they meant "HR Manager", and the eighteen different spellings of the word "Childminder".