Re: O'Reilly interview with Date

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:38:29 GMT
Message-ID: <VtoLe.5036$RZ2.4250@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>

"Tony Andrews" <andrewst_at_onetel.com> wrote in message news:1123861660.527338.95120_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

> constraints (i.e. foreign keys) and not complex inter-table constraints
> (like "CHECK (emp.sal BETWEEN dept.min_sal AND dept.max_sal)") that

This is the kind of thing that drives me nuts. I'm just about certain that Rdb/VMS supported this kind of constraint as far back as version 3.1 (about 1987). But nobody ever heard of Rdb/VMS, so they assume it's never been done in a commercial SQL DBMS. But it has! Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 10:38:29 CDT