Kevin,
> So perhaps the first step in this is to write something that will show
> what the distribution pattern for data in a table is? With that
> information, we *could* randomly generate data that would conform to
> the statistical patterns seen in the real world.
Sure. But I think it'll be *much* easier just to use portions of the FCC
database. You want to start working on converting it to PostgreSQL?
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco