Re-design a wellworking data base

[Pat Hartman]

I tend to disagree about using a tablet.

Tablets and phones are useless for real data entry. Phones are useless for almost everything. The point about tablets is that they have a larger screen area and so can be much more useful for looking at stuff. I would not want to use either for actual work except in limited applications such as your picklist example.

 

[GPGeorge]

Tablets and phones are useless for real data entry. Phones are useless for almost everything. The point about tablets is that they have a larger screen area and so can be much more useful for looking at stuff. I would not want to use either for actual work except in limited applications such as your picklist example.

My sister-in-law loves to tell a story about some of her 20-something students.

She was running a lab of some sort at a community college, where they had to use a PC to log in and complete an assignment. Several of the students begged her to let them use their phones to do the assignment instead of the computer.

I think there may be a generational shift at work.

 

[Pat Hartman]

I think there may be a generational shift at work.

Clearly the children don't do any work on their phones. Try writing documentation for example. How many words per minute can you type with your thumbs. They must use dictation I know some of our members try to answer posts on their phones. They don't seem to contribute much code that way or attach any examples.