Re: Data Constraints AND Application Constraints

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:28:28 GMT
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"David Cressey" <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:OuU_d.15244$qf2.8577_at_newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...

> I'd like to suggest that constraints are really proscribed actions on
data.
> As such, they can become part of the data definition.

The above is a mistake on my part. Constraints are really sets of proscribed values of data.
Actions are proscribed as a consequence if their effect would be to propagate proscribed values. Received on Sat Mar 19 2005 - 13:28:28 CET

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