Dr Laurie Miles wrote:
> Adrian
>
> The Master/Mr issue is easily sorted out, as you say. But the issue is different
> - previously Master was an acceptable Salutation. When they created the new
> (Spine) address database, someone (? Who) decided it would be a good idea to
> remove Master as an acceptable salutation, thus creating a huge administrative
> workload in changes (because no coding was applied to the old Exeter database to
> automatically change Master to Mr).
>
>
One UPDATE statement in SQL does that.
Unless there is a choice, depending upon knowledge, opinion, and
requiring a free decision by a person, there is no excuse for involving
people in making such updates piecemeal.
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