Re: The fable of DEMETRIUS, CONSTRAINTICUS, and AUTOMATICUS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:00:50 GMT
Message-ID: <CaQdd.290625$D%.152559@attbi_s51>

"Tony Andrews" <andrewst_at_onetel.com> wrote in message news:1098360335.982654.83280_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
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> In the first case, you have the ultimate user control - a rules engine?
> In which case, maybe it generates DDL?
>
> In the second (more common) case, the actual rule is hard-wired into
> the system somewhere - and may as well be DDL as anything else, no?

Maybe it's time we started talking about rules engines.

It seems to me that a lot of stuff the DBMS does around constraints could be done instead by a rules engine, but I have no intuition as to the advantages or disadvantages.

Marshall Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 10:00:50 CDT