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Subject:Database designer?
From:Jim Arnott
Date:Thu, 7 May 2009 20:24:34 -0700

So I found that with the new hardware, archive searches actually work.
I entered a one word search term and searched the entire archive.
Took about twenty seconds to return results. Then I perused the
results...

Search term? "statz"  What did I find? The last weakly statz was ten
years ago!
<http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9901B&L=vanagon&P=R14565>

Now over the years I've periodically prodded Joel to resume
publication but he has repeatedly told me that the university retired
the mainframe ton which he compiled them then they retired he who did
the compiling. Joel doesn't speak modern database language nor do I.
He speaks something called REXX which is what he apparently used to
write the program that he used to generate our fondly remembered
"Weakly Statz."

So.... Is there anyone on-list that has a background that would lend
itself to coming up with a new method of rendering Joel's lovingly
collected data into a report form that could be published again?  He's
not stopped collecting it. He just had to stop publishing it.

We need some help here!  Can someone come up with something that we
can just pour Joel's data into?

Please contact Joel and/or me with your ideas.

TIA,

Jim

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