[thechat] Looking for a waaaaay old thread from thelist
Luther, Ron
Ron.Luther at hp.com
Tue May 4 13:44:53 CDT 2010
Marc Seyon noted:
>>And of course the 12th character doesn't always refer to the same thing
>>across products. Blah blah headache.
Whoa! Deja Voodoo! I know that headache! ;-)
I used to work for a company that made those hand-held scanner guns you see the worker-bees wandering around Wally-World with. They were configured products. The configuration on the sales order was stored in a 100 character field. A "1" in the 12th character for one product might mean it has a Belgian modem. A "1" in the 12th character of another product might mean it has a 900 mhz transmitter.
Bright idea ... and oh so loverly to work with for constructing aggregate reports.
Cheers,
RonL.
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