Re: View updating in practice?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 22:15:09 -0500
Message-ID: <Wdkz9.141$Ga3.75085876@radon.golden.net>

"Jens Lechtenbörger" <lechtej_at_uni-muenster.de> wrote in message news:m265v87zud.fsf_at_pcwi1068.uni-muenster.de...
> Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> writes:
>

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> The question is the following: How dangerous are clueless users? If
> view updates are triggered from applications, then the application
> designer hopefully guarantees that the right things happen. If
> users access the database via SQL, they might delete valuable data.

How dangerous? Very. However, I do not see the difference between a clueless user deleting valuable data from a base table and a clueless user deleting valuable data from a view. I see this as an issue for the dbms' security function. Received on Sat Nov 09 2002 - 21:15:09 CST