atw: Re: DB terminology
- From: "beadle whitehead" <beadle580@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:47:18 +0530
I agree,
That is why I prefer to Send an online form rather than submit.
Submit is used only because (big assumption here, please tell me if it it
otherwise) it is the name of the HTML command.
Some of my work inclkudes a lot of translating from the programming language
to the user language.
B
>From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: atw: Re: DB terminology (Was: ASTCs etc)
>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:09:40 +0800
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>I'd try to phrase it in terms of the user's goal, not the underlying
>mechanism:
>Add a user; Delete a scenario; Search job history
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>...rather than: Insert user record; Delete record from scenario file;
>Query job history
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>The goals are the things that don't change, even if the implementation
>were to change. To take an extreme example, if the customer decided
>to throw out all their computer systems and revert to ledger cards and
>quill pens, the goal would still be 'Add a user', not 'Insert a record' or
>even 'Inscribe new card in user box'.
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>I worked on a product that had a swag of maintenance screens in a
>standard form:
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> Add row to backup item table
> Clone row in backup item table
> Change row in backup item table
> Delete row from backup item table
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>They certainly were all stored as rows in a table, and in this case
>the audience wouldn't have been troubled by the DB terminology,
>but there was just no advantage to rubbing their noses in the fact.
>'Add backup item' is shorter, clearer, and closer to the actual goal.
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>---
>Stuart Burnfield
>Information Developer
>Australian Programming Centre
>
> > The product has a database at the back end. The user has to
> > perform standard database operations, such as add records,
> > search, sort etc.
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