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Brian Peasland wrote:
> A worse approach would be to let the application handle the referential
> integrity. But don't get me started on that....
What we somehow need to educate these front-end developers about is that front-ends are technically incapable of enforcing referential integrity.
They give the appearance of doing so but actually do not and can not. No front-end designable is capable of keeping someone accessing the data with any other tool from destroying it be that batch loads with SQL*Loader, DBAs with SQL*Plus, or a host of tools that use ODBC or JDBC.
It is really a question of education and we need to educate them about those factors we think of as basic starting with the fact that data has value.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.orgReceived on Wed Jun 06 2007 - 09:45:07 CDT