[5305] in Moira
Re: name capitalization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Wed Mar 26 18:23:56 2008
Message-ID: <6bb308160803261523j4e6916c8v4c9427c852f42bb9@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:23:44 -0700
From: "David Krikorian" <dkk@google.com>
To: "Garry Zacheiss" <zacheiss@mit.edu>
Cc: "Laura Baldwin" <boojum@mit.edu>, bug-moira@mit.edu, accounts@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200803210122.m2L1MC6N022005@brad-majors.mit.edu>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu> wrote:
Apparently, because the staff load does the spindle/fold/mutilate thing
> with case for names, but the student load doesn't.
FWIW, this was probably because of the old Personnel system. IIRC, it
was an ancient database on a mainframe, replaced (in the mid 1990s?)
(by the data warehouse?), necessitating a change in the load process.
Mainframe culture tended to result in many things printed in ALL CAPS.
I remember writing a 25-line Perl script to convert between load-file
formats,
which is why I remember the system change, but I think that script was
just for the transition testing (so Garry might never have seen it).
My apologies to Mr. DeGraff!
:)
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Garry Zacheiss <<a href="mailto:zacheiss@mit.edu">zacheiss@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Apparently, because the staff load does the spindle/fold/mutilate thing<br></div>
with case for names, but the student load doesn't.</blockquote><div><br>FWIW, this was probably because of the old Personnel system. IIRC, it<br>was an ancient database on a mainframe, replaced (in the mid 1990s?)<br>
(by the data warehouse?), necessitating a change in the load process.<br>Mainframe culture tended to result in many things printed in ALL CAPS.<br><br>I remember writing a 25-line Perl script to convert between load-file formats,<br>
which is why I remember the system change, but I think that script was<br>just for the transition testing (so Garry might never have seen it).<br><br>My apologies to Mr. DeGraff!<br>:)<br><br></div></div>
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