Oracle-L: Re: Theory v Practice

From: Rodd Holman <roddholman_at_HotPOP.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:24:22 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004F16ED.20021023102422@fatcity.com>

Craig,
Unfortuneatly this happens alot. Many developers have an over inflated view of their abilities and think they can write their code good enough to handle this. Every time I have seen this in place I have seen data integrity problems. Some major application vendors do this to provide the ability to work with any database. All they need then are tables and indexes.

If at all possible get them off of this track and use the database for integrity handling. That's why it has those features.

HTH Rodd

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:45, Craig Healey wrote:

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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