<DATA Warehousing and the Near-Line Era
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<Another option is throwing away the unused data. Since it took so much
time and money to capture the data, throwing it away is difficult to
justify. And what if this data is needed in the future? Once the data is
thrown away, it might not be possible to recreate it. >

At the risk of sounding ancient - this sounds a lot like the attitude
towards destroying paper in the early days of RIM program development.
It makes an interesting correlation that paper or electronic - records
(or data in this case) are viewed the same by the user base.  "Keep
everything just in case!"


Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
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Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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