Re: Looking for a way to implement SQL-92 Domain

Paul Brewer wrote:

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> This is why I will resort to triggers as a last resort, and why I vastly
> prefer declarative contraints.

FWIW, I concur 100%+ ... I was soooo happy when I saw the features from various releases (like tablespaces. vs dataspaces, data triggers, RI). Now I'm especially happy with Workspaces, login triggers, etc. Looking forward to the next improvements!

> And this is why I hate Peoplesoft, and all the other crappy applications
> which try (and invariably fail) to do it from the client side. Why can't
> they handle Oracle errors gracefully? Surely this is easy enough? Then they
> could say "This Widget already exists; please try again with a different Wid
> get Number" - or some such.
>

Unfortunately, by actually leveraging the underlying RDBMS, they would have to commit to a) understanding the RDBMS, b) supporting a single vendor solution, c) reducing the general programming effort and overhead so significantly that they would actually make a legitimate profit frtom reasonable priced product.

Beside, it allows them to say "if you don't like Oracle, get Microsoft SQL Server, it's just as good" - you only lose credibility after the sale is done, when it doesn't matter. Remember, marketing (not development) rules!

/H Received on Wed Mar 26 2003 - 22:16:28 CST