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Craig,
Your right, Oracle is just being used as an expensive file system. Get them to use MySql instead, it's far cheaper.
Now from a practical point of view, who are these duhvelopers that they dictate setting up the database? If they were in our shop they would not have gotten onto first base. Setting up a database is the DBA's job and using primary and foreign keys is something that the database should do, not VB especially NOT VB.
Dick Goulet
____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: "Craig Healey" <C.Healey_at_hhsuk.com> Date: 10/23/2002 9:45 AM
The developers working on our new VB app are also responsible for
setting up the Oracle DB behind it. The app is for an order
entry/despatch/warehouse system with >5 million customers and >1000
orders per day. We have nearly 400 tables. They are not planning on
using primary keys/secondary keys, as they say they will handle all the
constraints via VB.
I only have a theoretical knowledge of database design, which says this
is very wrong. Is the Oracle system being used as anything more than an
expensive file system? In real world scenarios, is this a common
practice?
Regards
Craig Healey
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