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Introduction Although many varieties of sophisticated software are available for database construction, they impose very little restriction on their implemented form. Indeed, it would fly in the face of database philosophy to impose the form of implementation, for this would not encourage features like responsiveness to new requests (Bailey, Creel, Grossman, Gutti, and Sivakumar, 55-57). Thus each operational database is unique, even if the software used in constructing it is an industry standard. A piece of advice one gets from software manuals is to develop two mental pictures of one’s unique database. The first picture is of the contents of the database and the way it is organized; and the second picture is of what can be done with …show more content…

In 1988 two further levels (i.e. records types) were added to the database, one containing numerical and categorical data from the RIQ 1988 (type 3 record) and the other containing textual data from the RIQ 1988 (type 4 records). Thus the final form of the database involved seventy-three firms treated as cases, with four record types attached to each firm (or case), two record types containing numerical and categorical data and two record types containing textual data. For convenience, this paper refers to the database as having four levels, each level referring to a type of record (Grossman, Hornick, and Meyer, 59-61). At the time of updating and extending the database in 1988, the opportunity was taken to undertake a full audit of the data mounted in 1985 by reference to the original physical interview schedules. In the autumn of 1989 a further full audit was undertaken of the data added in 1988, again by reference to the original schedules. Some design modifications were also implemented in autumn 1989 to enhance the compatibility of records. As a consequence one hopes that the data, whilst not perfect, are of about as high a quality as the usual human and computing resources will permit. Once fully installed, the database contained 29,200 data items in the AQ 1985; 2,635 data items in

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