Cell Phone Reverse Number Lookup - No More Unknown Phone Numbers

By Jay Phillips

Cell phone reverse number lookup directories are not only useful to private detectives, lawyers and researchers but they can be very useful to regular people. For example, how many times have you received prank calls, did you know that there are people who are constantly harassed by such calls? Today thanks to the reverse phone lookup directory all you need to stop these calls is a phone number. Simply log in, type in the number and in two seconds you will have that persons name and address which you can then simply hand over to the police and have them solve this problem.

Or you find an old number in your wallet, cell phone memory or in your old phone book, it looks familiar but no matter how much you try you can't remember who it belongs to. You could simply call this number and find out who gave it to you, but that could possibly cause you a great embarrassment. Easier way to solve this predicament is to simply look it up and find out the owners name.

Perhaps your girlfriend or wife has been receiving a lot of calls from a number you can't recognize. Next time it happens memorize it or better yet write it down, and simply use reverse phone lookup to find out who owns it. Or perhaps you have noticed an unknown number constantly appearing on your phone bills, when you ask your wife or kids about they all play innocent, well now you have a way to find out who owns it without them ever finding out about it.

However not all reverse lookup websites will provide you with the all information you may need. If the number in question is a cell phone number free directories will not be of much use. Free directories can help you get more information regarding regular landline phones, but when it comes to cell phones you'll be just wasting your time by using them.

Paid cell phone reverse number lookup directories do charge a small fee for their services, but it is a one time only charge and a small one as well. In return you will receive at least a full year of unlimited lookups as well as access to more advanced search services like people search, criminal and background records check and e-mail lookup to mention just a few.

It is important to choose the right reverse phone lookup directory, as not even all paid directories will have these additional services. If you are already paying for something why not get the best service you can for the same cost?

No matter if you are a professional or not, and for whatever reason you may need it - good cell phone reverse number lookup directory can help you feel more secure and get you the information you need.

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The Theory Of Meaningless Numbers! (TMN01)

By Peter Donovan

What is a meaningless number? Meaningless numbers are ID and CODE columns which uniquely identify a record in a database table. They were made up by computer programmers, and in traditional programming, they formed the first entry window where you were responsible for remembering that “D” means Doctor, and “402” is your best customer. Since it would be wrong to discriminate against an entry window just because it’s a letter and not a number [age of equality] I’ll include meaningless letter combo’s in this theory also.

The point? Users should not be required to remember “402” for General Electric of Massachusetts and “791” for General Electric Turbine Division”, but programmers should indeed still make use of them as the basis of relationships between database table records. Just don’t expect the users to enter or remember them: the truly meaningless numbers and codes can be totally hidden from users and as a study, I will refer to RoloFlex by Applause Software as a good example where each table is based on a unique meaningless number.

What is a meaningful number? A meaningful number is those database records that are referred to commonly by number such as PO #4067, Sales Order #1, and Speeding Ticket #352-4635A. These numbers exist on paper and are the primary way of referring to a record of this type. When you go to look up my speeding ticket, you might indeed look it up under my name also, but when a payment is received [good luck] you want to be able to enter the printed number 352-4635A and quickly locate and apply payment before my check bounces.

Can a meaningful and meaningless number co-exist? Yes. Numeric meaningless numbers are the foundation of unique identifiers of each record, and a meaningful number can co-exist as [both] uniquely indexed [findable] columns in the same data table.

There’s a space here while the programmers hold their heads.

Let’s say you are a database programmer and know that numbers rather than a string which varies in length [throwing off the sort order completely] should be the foundation of the database record [for speed and relationship purposes only], you can program your unique (meaningless) ID column of speeding tickets, and also have a unique (meaningful) column which is ascii [mixed numbers and letters] which is used for finding it.

Why not make the key column a automatic increment number for relation purposes alongside a humanly enterable column consisting of alpha-numeric characters? Hands please? How many programmers have written 200 lines of code to auto-increment “#352-4635A”? The role of the meaningless number is to get auto-incremented in 1 line of code, being totally hidden from the user, and the foundation of the relationship to it’s parent database table. The role of the Speeding Ticket number is to humanly find a record more easily than 12342345345565.

Table Layout Proposed: -Fines- Column: Element: Type: Length: Index: Relates To: 1 ID

Numeric 16.0 1 (unique) 2 TicketNo Ascii 20 2 (unique) 3 VIN_ID Numeric 10.0 3 VIN.ID //
Not VIN (Ascii Field) 4 SSN_ID Numeric 10.0 4 SSN.ID // Not SSN (Ascii Field)

-VIN- Column: Element: Type: Length: Index: Relates To: 1 ID Numeric 10.0 1 (unique) 2 VIN Ascii 20 2 (unique)

-SSN- Column: Element: Type: Length: Index: Relates To: 1 ID Numeric 10.0 1 (unique) 2 SSN Ascii 11 2 (unique)

This structure makes use of meaningless numbers and meaningful numbers side by side, each fulfilling their job.

Hopefully there is a programmer slapping his/her head here like the V-8 commercial.

The ROLE of a meaningless number: Let’s face it. Meaningless numbers are here to stay.
Everybody’s got one, but programmers are still stuck on what to do with them. HIDE THEM! In a relational database model, where the child is related to it’s parent by the ID, the value will automatically drop down to the child upon a successful save, making display of this number absolutely unnecessary. I should point out that many good programming firms are based on “Intelligent Design” such as Auto-Mate Software of the USA http://www.automatesoftware.com/. Please visit this site to read about the story about “Enter the field matrix number”…. It’s a great story.

Let’s go a step further and call a byte a byte. Whether it’s a field matrix number or a part number, due concern needs to be put into the design of a “key field” lookup to determine whether or not it’s meaningful or meaningless. On a part number, why not both? To programmers, here’s my argument: why not use this technique so that if the part number is mis-entered, or changes, you can simply reenter the part number without altering the relationship? Madness or magnificent? It’s your opinion that counts.

Let’s take an example in RoloFlex 12.3 from Applause Software (open source and freeware). The database tables all have a unique ID that is 10 digit numeric: Please refer to the running program and you will see that none are visible. In addition, I have coded the key fields as “noenter” so that if they were made visible, they could not be used! Ten digit ID numbers for everything? Meaningless or Madness?

Hands again? Each programmer who has had to increase a user’s key ID field from 6 to 8 to accommodate 20 years of data entry please stand up! I’ll bet there are a good many among us. Let’s also note in passing that dates on computers are stored as 6 digit integers, and in the western world we are almost out of numbers in the six digit length! Why have we not expanded our dates to 8 or 10 digits? I guess we’ll have to wait until “Y6K” to find out!

The design of meaningless numbers in action: Let’s take on a RDBMS [relational database management system] example and specifically look at parent and child table design. My first point should be obvious to most programmers, that a parent ID field is used to uniquely identify the parent but (being meaningless) is not displayed to the user at all. In RoloFlex, please note that the parent database tables of the main table have a unique ID which drops down into the main table upon a save, forming the relationship without being seen.

Please note (when inspecting the inner table def's for RoloFlex tables) that the Key ID column has a noenter attribute, meaning that the user cannot change or type in a new value to that column should it appear on the screen. It is auto-incremented from the system file “sysfile” and is totally meaningless to even the database designer other than being a unique value. No surprises here, but let’s look at a child table to see the same technique:

So, what’s the surprise here? On many occasions, I have noticed the lack of a single unique key field on child records. For example, the child of order header would have a key combination of HeaderID and Linenumber. If I applied the same consideration to the CallHist table, then there would be a combo of RolodexID and Call Date as the first index. What [the used] this technique does is to form the basis of a future child table to CallHist. From the get-go, a strong ID field exists to form a potential one-to-one column relationship to a child of CallHist which may exist in the future. The point, then, is to always program an ID column as a unique meaningless number for every table and index it accordingly. Then, progress onwards to specifying all the other columns of the database table.

As an extra bonus, you will see that “recnum” or record number is not defined in any of the indexes making a move from any one back end to another manufacturer’s back end a relatively easy job.

Whitepaper Summary: I believe I have defined the difference between a meaningful number and a meaningless number and stated that meaningless numbers have no place in data entry!
On the other hand, the argument for placing a meaningless number as the foundation of your relationships overwhelms the reasons that you might have for designing a meaningful number as the relationship key: It is my contention that an alphanumeric or string column has no place as the relationship key, and lastly that each table should have an ID field for forming the relationship which totally frees you to change the secondary key column with data entry without compromising the relationships.

Let end users see meaningful numbers only, but put your foundation on “meaningless design” with [hidden] data architecture!

The Author, Peter A Donovan of Applause Software, has been programming custom database interface systems since 1982 (not coincidentally the year following the release of the IBM PC). Peter's work can be found at http://www.ApplauseSoftware.Com and http://www.ApplauseSoftware.Biz

Reverse Phone Directory - How Reverse Look up of Phone Numbers Can Help You

By Gerry Restrivera

More and more people are using reverse look up of phone numbers now. This is the process of finding out the owner of a mysterious phone number. Normally you use the phone directory to find out the phone number of a person, in reverse phone directory the phone number will be used to find out the name, location and other information about any person.

You may think this is ridiculous and ask yourself if you will need it. Why would you need to know the owner of the anonymous phone number? Here are some reasons how a reverse look up of phone numbers can help you.

Stop phone harassment or prank callers. Are you receiving anonymous calls? Or as a parent, is someone calling or annoying your son or daughter? How can you protect your children if you don’t know who is the caller? You have to treat this seriously and take action to stop phone harassment. Break-ins, kidnappings and violent crimes may start with just a seemingly innocent prank call. Yes you can report this to the police but they will only give you all the attention and will recognize you are in real danger if you have solid evidence and give them details about the prank caller. And how can you do that? This is the time that you need to use the reverse look up of phone numbers. What if you find out that the anonymous caller is just across the street or a few blocks away from you? That’s scary, and the information you got from reverse look up of phone numbers can help you report your complaints to the authorities to secure your safety.

Catch a cheating lover. This is another use of reverse look up of phone numbers. Ever found suspicious numbers that kept appearing on your lover’s cell phone? Or are you wondering about unrecognized numbers that kept appearing in your phone bills? Infidelity and cheating is so common in today’s society, up to 25% of women and 40% of men cheats. You have to know if something is going on behind your back and save yourself from a lot of heartaches and turmoil in the future. Although you are getting suspicious, you still need to be discreet and act accordingly.

Confronting your lover will only create a bigger problem if the number in question turned out to be a false alarm. All you can do is find out the identity of the mysterious number and know the facts through reverse look up of phone numbers.

These are just two of the many reasons why you need a reverse look up of phone numbers. In this world your peace of mind and safety is priceless.

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How to Check Suspicious Phone Numbers - Catch a Cheating Lover

By Gerry Restrivera

There are always tell-tale signs that he or she is cheating you. Warning signs may include changes in your spouse’s routine and behavior. These changes maybe slight or something obvious and he/she will deny or dismiss the subject at once when confronted. But what if there are unexplained phone calls or strange phone numbers appearing repetitively on the phone bill or even on the mobile phone statement? You found numbers that appears more than once in your lover’s cell phone but isn’t saved in the address book. Isn’t that suspicious? How would you know if something is going on? There are things that you can do to check suspicious phone numbers.

Cheating and infidelity seems to be so common, there are reports that 12%-25% of women cheats and 22%-40% of men cheats. That is a very scary realization if you are in a relationship. If you found a suspicious number that keeps appearing in his cell phone, do not ignore it but do something to check suspicious phone numbers. Save yourself from future hurt and turmoil.

Your impulse would be to confront your spouse or your lover to check suspicious phone numbers, but in most cases if he/she is cheating, you will get no explanation or he/she will just dismiss the subject at once. There are also cases that this questioning will end up in ugly fights and confrontations.

Another urge maybe is to call and check suspicious phone numbers and find out the owner of the number, but of course that’s too scary, what if the number turned out to be a false alarm? You will put yourself and your spouse in a very ugly situation.

So what is the solution? Have you heard of reverse phone look up? You can check suspicious phone numbers and find out other important information about the number. You can search through the database the name, address and other records about the number in question.

It's time you knew the truth and end your worries. Download your search results instantly for any phone number. No one will ever know about your search-- the information will be held strictly confidential. Run your reverse phone look up now and check suspicious phone numbers at Reverse Phone Detective

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