Survey-Fault Tolerance & Duplicate Record Elimination

Survey- Record Entry Fault Tolerance and Duplicate Record Elimination This survey is intended for developers and administrators of large relational databases, particularly in a UNIX environment. The German American Chamber of Commerce, the official trade promotion organization for Germany is conducting this survey to help determine market opportunities for software technology for ultra-fast, fault tolerant data searches, based on a new indexing algorithm, developed in Germany. Respondents to this survey will receive a complimentary copy of the book 'Germany - Your Business Partner.' Please provide your contact information: Name- Title- Company/Organization- Mailing Address- City/State- Zip- Tel- Fax- E-Mail- Question 1- Please describe your system environment- (operating system, DB system, etc.) Question 2- Approximately how many records are in your database? Question 3- Approximately how many users use this database? Question 4- Do you use any error/fault checking procedures during the record entry process? Question 4.1- If yes to Question 4, could you please describe the procedures? Question 5- What measures do you take to manage/eliminate duplicate records? Question 6- What would you estimate the percentage of duplicate records in your database to be? Question 7- Can you provide an estimate of the cost burden of duplicate records on your database? Question 8- The following description is a summary of the capabilities and characteristics of the software technology for which we are conducting this study: -enables ultra-fast and fault tolerant data entry and searches -applicable to database access, text retrieval, duplicate searches, process data control, etc. -great for error-prone data input (e.g. OCR data) -inexact queries yield correct results -eliminates duplicates due to typos, pronunciation errors, uppercase/lowercase transpositions, abbreviations, etc. -server application, operates as a UNIX pipe -open and independent from OS and DB systems, easily ported to other OSs. -interface to any SQL or 4GL program -easily bundled with RDBM system, operates via a trigger. Would such a product be useful for your organization? Question 9- Would you like to receive further information? Thank you for your time. We will send you your copy of Germany- Your Business Partner within the next two to three weeks. Please e-mail your response to one of the following addresses: pquimby@aol.com or 74672.3117@compuserve.com