Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:01:39 GMT
Message-ID: <m5vdd.284011$D%.183869@attbi_s51>

"Tony Andrews" <andrewst_at_onetel.com> wrote in message news:1098203209.227751.22300_at_c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Marshall Spight wrote:
> > "Tony Andrews" <andrewst_at_onetel.com> wrote in message
> news:1098201951.251759.85460_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > > what you want is a complex declarative constraint (aka an
> "assertion")
> > > - something many DBMSs can't do, unfortunately.
> >
> > Yes, that's exactly what you want!

> Do you know of any commercially available DBMS that has these? I use
> Oracle, which sadly does not.

I don't, alas.

Marshall Received on Wed Oct 20 2004 - 10:01:39 CDT