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Re: Holdable cursors in Oracle?

From: Paul Brewer <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:27:24 -0000
Message-ID: <3e7cc1ba_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>


"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:b5c6hk$hup$1_at_ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...
> Hillel Eilat wrote:
>
> > Yes - data integrity and stability are not maintained - but this is not
> > the issue here.
>
> Yeah... personally I think it is always an issue. The most precious
> commidity is the data. That needs to be safeguarded and protected. So if
> you discard certain data integrity checks, you need to balance it
somewhere
> else along the way to ensure that the data still represents the truth
> correctly and accurately.
>
> Nothing worse than having a corrupted dimension and sitting with a table
> filled with useless facts as these can not be related to the correct
> dimension values.
>

Amen! Who wants a report which runs fast but gives the wrong results?

Regards,
Paul Received on Sat Mar 22 2003 - 13:27:24 CST

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