I worked onsite at Baan Development for Oracle Development, so I know them
well. Acutally I live pretty close to their main offices here in the
Netherlands :-)
On 8/18/06, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen_at_oneneck.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not trying to promote the creation of tables w/o PKs, but just FYI -
> I work with the Baan ERP application (you've probably never heard of it,
> but I think they used to be #5 behind SAP, Oracle, etc. - Boeing is
> their largest customer) and they do not use PKs or any RI in the
> database - they use unique indexes with not null constraints, and they
> manage all the RI w/in the application. Not ideal, but I must admit
> they've done a pretty good job of implementing it this way - it's never
> caused us any problems in the 8yrs I've been working with it. I've
> heard that some of the other big ERPs (maybe even SAP - anyone know?)
> are designed similarly.
>
> Another thing to consider in letting the app manage the RI is that you
> can't easily view the relationships for reporting purposes when trying
> to use Crystal or some other 3rd party reporting tool.
>
> Regards,
> Brandon
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