Re: What is a relational database?

MVCS <nospam-mvcs_at_idt.net> wrote in article <342148a2.75625500_at_news.idt.net>...
> "Mark Nastasi" <mark_nastasi_at_pepboys.com> wrote:
>
> > A relational database also is unique because it can Cascade Deletes and
> >Updates in a relational manner.
> >.....
>
> This is something that people can do with a relational db, or it is a
> defining characteristic thereof?
>

I vote for the former. Although my reference material is not handy, I do not remember
cascading updates/deletes being part of the "definition" of relational. You can develop
a perfectly good app in a relational system without using cascades. (you just gotta
wrtie more code to do it )

 If you ask me it is ust a feature of most modern relational systems.

jwp Received on Thu Sep 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST