Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 08:19:58 CST 2013
Susan, Not meaning to trounce on your opinion, but I don't find the restriction ridiculous in the slightest. For example, I once worked for a couple of years on a eHealth app in which we had the medical history of everyone in Ontario that had an OHIP card (Ontario Health Insurance Plan). Even the SQL programmers were not allowed to see much of the actual data. The head DBA in this case created views and stored procedures that replaced the actual data with junk characters. Consider just one of many possible scenarios: suppose I'm dating a new woman, and decide to run a check whether she's ever had an AIDS test. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. A.