Re: Triggers v Referential keys

From: Brian Tkatch <N/A>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:58:12 -0400
Message-ID: <8u9td3dbr1opu93l4r4eau15q1df002gn2@4ax.com>

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:31:27 -0700, Gints Plivna <gints.plivna_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Although it is really alarming situation I won't judge the product
>only based on that. Quite many financial apps don't have referential
>integrity, Oracle designer haven't much of it and so on.
>Although I'm very much pro referential integrity contraints, logic in
>db and so on, I can assume that there might be possibility to create
>good apps without them.

Of course a good app can be created without referential constraints. A good relational database design, however, requires referential constraints.

B. Received on Wed Sep 05 2007 - 07:58:12 CDT