Re: Multiple specification of constraints

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:46:33 -0500
Message-ID: <PO2dnVv2KdkZ_dvdRVn-sA_at_golden.net>


"Eric Kaun" <ekaun_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:K5n1c.20848$9G4.6151_at_newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
> "ben brugman" <ben_at_niethier.nl> wrote in message
> news:403e2973$0$1416$4d4ebb8e_at_read.news.nl.uu.net...
> > (Some database people say that if a constraint can not be implemented
> > in a database, then it can not be a real constraint. I do not agree with
> > that.)
>
> Can we have a counterexample?

I could be wrong, but I believe he is confusing a statement that constraints that are demonstrably hard or provably incomputable are equally hard for applications as for dbmses. Received on Wed Mar 03 2004 - 23:46:33 CET

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