Re: A searchable datastructure for represeting attributes?

From: Ilya Zvyagin 2147483647 <ziv_at_fct.ru>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:21:00 +0300
Message-ID: <1014970484.820100@gatekeeper.fct.ru>

Hello, --CELKO--!
You wrote on 28 Feb 2002 14:12:11 -0800:

 C> The other ways to validate data are not at the database level, so
 C> people can get around them.  Even worse, the validation rules that
 C> Mr.
 C> A uses are not guaranteed to be the same validation rules that Mr. B
 C> uses.

Do you really think all data integrity rules should be kept by the database itself ? What about that rules that can not ? What if the database is not able to support them at all or rules is so complicated that being supported by the DB they make the whole system performing so badly that it's better not to use the system at all ?

What about people who can get around validation rules - there are many ways to implement a system in a way that does not allow direct access to the database.

Ilya Zvyagin, First Container Terminal of SPb Sea Port e-mail: masterziv@*KILLSPAM*mail.ru - personal, ziv@*KILLSPAM*fct.ru - business. ICQ UID: 29427861(MasterZIV) Received on Fri Mar 01 2002 - 02:21:00 CST