Re: database integrity

From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:29:03 -0400
Message-Id: <lncam2-fuv.ln1@pluto.downsfam.net>

mountain man wrote:

> "Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
> news:dYBje.97016$jn3.5538960_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...

>> mountain man wrote:
>>> "Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message
>>> news:K%6je.95748$hi2.5651565_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
>>>> I've always wondered why this is never mentioned as an example of the
>>>> usefulness of dynamic database constraints.
>>>
>>> Mentioned by whom?
>>
>> Writers of database textbooks.

>
> Good question, in that case.
>
> I am tending towards the observation that when people
> refer to the discipline of database systems theory (as
> disclosed by the writers of database textbooks) the
> bulk of it refers to the theory leading up to, and
> immediately prior to implementation of a production
> concern.
>
> After that, the theory is filed away somewhere
> and people revert to the use of common sense.
>

Common sense has nothing to do with it. You have to get yourself a magic eight ball.

Oh great magic eight ball, should I add automated columns to my database?

"Signs Point To Yes"

-- 
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

Received on Mon May 23 2005 - 20:29:03 CDT