Comments on: Tip: Tables containing people http://blog.mauveweb.co.uk/2008/01/25/tip-tables-containing-people/ experiments in contemporary web development Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:06:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: mauve http://blog.mauveweb.co.uk/2008/01/25/tip-tables-containing-people/#comment-25547 mauve Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:17:25 +0000 http://blog.mauveweb.co.uk/2008/01/25/tip-tables-containing-people/#comment-25547 You also should store collation too if you want to be able to sort names in telephone directory order. Telephone directories are sorted by surname then initials and names like MacDonald are sorted with McDonald, so storing a field for collation can be even more useful that simply storing surname and first names. You also should store collation too if you want to be able to sort names in telephone directory order.

Telephone directories are sorted by surname then initials and names like MacDonald are sorted with McDonald, so storing a field for collation can be even more useful that simply storing surname and first names.

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