Re: partiioning option not worth it?

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:55:06 -0000, "Keith Boulton" <kboulton_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>I have had amusing conversations with people making this point, when the
>same people were saying that we shouldn't implement referential integrity
>constraints because "it's too expensive at run-time" - not that they'd
>actually tested it. As I recall, the database experienced about 1 database
>corruption per day where a constraint would have prevented it.
>

And I had to fight against the idea "Let's disable all constraints while coding, enabling them for the tests is sufficient." AArghh...

regards
Marc Blum
mailto:marc_at_marcblum.de
http://www.marcblum.de Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 08:27:43 CST