Comments on: Orphaned Records and Technical Hypochondria

By: Daisy Jackson

Daisy Jackson — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:31:32 +0000

Southpark is quite funny but some of the scenes maybe a bit too morbid even for adults.’”-

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Let’s Play the Orphaned Records Game | Made2Mentor — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:34:08 +0000

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By: Avi Kenaani

Avi Kenaani — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:08:26 +0000

I’ll search invoicing history for the customer name, if no invoice found just delete the records, if found, find a manager that is not “technological hypochondriac” explain the situation and fix the record!

By: David

David — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:32:35 +0000

Yes, it’s from the “Something You Can Do With Your Finger” episode of South Park. I chose it because the mall manager is so confused and paranoid, and I have a penchant for sausage and cheese. heh

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:13:20 +0000

Where did you get that picture? It looks like South Park.

To answer your question, are addresses that important anyway? I would just delete them, but if it was something related to accounting I would raise it with the manager.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:12:56 +0000

First I would complain to M2M, not that it would do much good. I would then clean up the data as requested. I would not inform the manager unless he specifically asked me about what I found or if I was concerned that the corrupt data was very important.