Re: Separate PK in Jxn Tbl?
From: Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:33:56 -0000
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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:33:56 -0000
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"Jon Heggland" <jon.heggland_at_ntnu.no> wrote in message
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> Quoth Roy Hann:
>> What would be very nice is if one day it were possible for applications
>> to download the relevant constraints at run-time, the way they presently
>> download other metda-data.
>
> Dataphor does this.
You don't think I was clever enough to come up with the idea all by myself do you? :-)
I admire what Dataphor set out to do. But having been forced to adopt SQL against my will a long time ago, I am under no illusion that anything better than SQL will ever catch on. The best hope is that embedded SQL might be less stupid in future.
Roy Received on Fri Feb 01 2008 - 10:33:56 CET