Re: And another one about PL/SQL

Norman Dunbar wrote:
>
> Ralph,
>
> in what way are triggers known to be unstable ?
>
> Just curious as I've never come across anything like that before, and I
> use triggers quite a lot nowadays.
>
> Regards,
> Norman.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsarwar_at_ifsna.com (Rauf Sarwar) [mailto:rsarwar_at_ifsna.com]
> Posted At: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:06 PM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: And another one about PL/SQL
> Subject: Re: And another one about PL/SQL
>
> >> Since triggers are known to be very unstable, I would highly
> recommend
> >> using PACKAGES.

I'm guessing here...but triggers have been known to get a bad name because people use them to attempt to enforce referential integrity...which is a very very bad idea.

hth
connor

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