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From: "Marshall Spight" <mspight@dnai.com>
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Subject: Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
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"Bob Badour" <bbadour@golden.net> wrote in message news:ICqdnV62UPJLGweiU-KYiw@golden.net...
> >
> > Integrity constraints are relevant everywhere we have
> > an application that *updates* the database. If we
> > just want to read, no big deal.
>
> If we just want to read, we still need to know the data types and relation
> headings at a minimum.

Good point.


Marshall