Path: news.f.de.plusline.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.visyn.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.ecp.fr!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool02.plus.net!ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:34:30 +0100 From: bugbear User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070223 Fedora/1.0.8-0.5.1.fc5 SeaMonkey/1.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: not using foreign keys? References: <1180979621.128496.281540@n4g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <1180990727.634341.264230@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <13690do2ld0u14c@corp.supernews.com> <1180998281.643036.248300@n4g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <85s96310gldamjicpfamcfnn6jf82v0feb@4ax.com> <1181055966.772710.327280@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Message-ID: <46669bc6$0$8744$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net> Organization: Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: a9f2d2ae.ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net X-Trace: DXC=0NicZD<@0XlclJXjQ^Ibmnigd3Y`7Rb;n37XnI;[OUCdG`jPeGcW;ik@;S?:88[mKc>N]gKC<2c]nQHI^WXVZ?^l X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net Xref: news.f.de.plusline.net comp.databases.oracle.server:199008 comp.databases.oracle.misc:79857 sybrandb@hccnet.nl wrote: > On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:06:06 -0700, spacemarine@mailinator.com wrote: > >> lol - give me a fucking break. youre seriously expecting me to quit my >> app dev job (as stated, im not the dba) because of a project im >> working on that doesnt use FKs? you need to get out more. >> >> i work to live, and my life has beautiful things in it that require a >> steady gig. your mileage may vary. >> > Let's phrase it this way: If you, in a job interview, would admit to > have been on a job where they didn't use foreign keys, I definitely > wouldn't hire you. Odd. What about somebody who was "on a job where they didn't use foreign keys", and decided (after a few days) that this was dreadful and quit. Sounds like a positive recommendation for the somebody ;-) BugBear