Re: Dealing with change.

On 22/06/2003 13:45 David M. Cook wrote:
> I'm writing an application that depends heavily on "reference" tables
> that
> the user can use the select data from.  The users should be able to add
> to
> these tables and make any corrections they deem necessary.  But I also
> want
> to be able to periodically ship out corrections and additions to these
> reference tables.  What is the best way to do this without interfering
> with
> the changes the user has made?  I thought of keeping the reference data
> in
> its own database and using this as a template for the user database, but
> how
> would the user merge any changes to the template (or would this be
> automatic?)
>
>

If I were in that situation, I'd write an update program to handle the
data merge.

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