Re: Multiple specification of constraints
From: Eric Kaun <ekaun_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:47:12 GMT
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:47:12 GMT
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"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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> After all, the whole point of a DBMS is to have I/O.
You're not really serious? In other words, as long as it's persisted, it doesn't matter what "it" is?
> Those who
> dont want to "waste valuable i/o" on performing database constraint
> or validation checking might consider allocating funds to a get better
> CPU if the validation i/o is not quick enough for the users.
If they don't want to waste time doing that, they probably really don't want to waste time - and money - fixing the inevitable results of data corruption.
- erk