I am working on a new database for a client, the original was developed several years ago. A lot of effort has been put into the new version to make it easy to use and efficient. Part of this process has been identifying the business process that the database is supporting, and determining what data is required. Not surprisingly the old system has been collecting a large amount of data that is completely unnecessary.
However old habits die hard and one of the managers is upset that there is no place in the new system to enter all the data that they have been typing in for years.
The fact that data is still being collected (from paper forms and an existing web site) doesn't mean it should go into the database. It's not the issue of storage, it's the time wasted on data entry and support.
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