Re: Fine-grained Access Control and constraint violations

In this foul year of our lord Fri, 08 Aug 2003 08:49:46 -0700, Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> proclaimed:

>From my read of your posting you have thrown out all of the rules of
>relational database theory taught in lesson one on databases.

I must have been off sick when they taught lesson one :-)

But seriously, which rules are violated here? Lesson one on coaching is that you tell a pupil *why* he's wrong, not just *that* he's wrong.

Keep in mind that the requirement for a constraint on unique names is something that may change into a different constraint, or disappear, on some future date.

>If you want this to work you will need to trash your design and go back to
>doing things the way they were intended to be done in a relational
>database. I'd start with reading Cobb.

I would redesign if I could, but we're working on an existing, elaborate design. The client asks for security on the existing system, and telling him we'll need an extra 2 man-years for this job would not make him very happy.
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Ronald In 't Velt Received on Fri Aug 08 2003 - 15:26:34 CDT