Thoughts about the stock quote database

[Phillip Shelton]

> -----Original Message-----
> Doesn't leave much to work with.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > Your second question: what do we do about stocks that change names
> > > and/or ticker symbols?  This is an issue we haven't really
> > > addressed.
> >
> > I defintely don't know enough right now to know what the "constants"
> > here are.  Company name changes are obviously ephemeral,
> > but, thinking
> > about it, it seems like ticker symbols, and perhaps even exchanges
> > could be too...

Perhaps the `constant' is all three together? I know that it is not much
help.