Re: Is it Possible to Enforce This Relationship at the DB Level?

On Oct 18, 8:57 pm, Ed Prochak <edproc..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 7:03 am, David Portas
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> <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dpor..._at_acm.org> wrote:
> > On 15 Oct, 22:59, dutone <dut..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I'd like to enforce this based on the data model and its
> > > relationships.
> > > Although to me, it doesn't seem possible without an additional layer
> > > of logic.
> > > The need for a check assertion in a RDMS tells me that cerain
> > > cituations must be enforced at a higher level. This is one of them I
> > > guess.
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> > Maybe your definition of a data model differs from mine. All such
> > constraints are surely part of that model irrespective of what syntax
> > the DBMS uses.
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> > If you have some particular DBMS in mind then maybe someone will have
> > other suggestions about features supported by that product. Perhaps a
> > redesign would also be possible but I'm reluctant to begin a design-by-
> > newsgroup exercise.
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> > --
> > David Portas
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> I'm not trying to start a group design effort, but his original model
> certainly seems to me to have the Cell Config in the wrong place. At
> the logical lege, the connections should be described verbally (the
> cardinality can be there but blank connections between entities leaves
> too many unidentified assumptions.

Wrong place, how so? The diagram got screwed up so let me clarify.

The CLIENT can provides a SERVICE

Each SERVICE is described by a SPREADSHEET

The SPREADSHEET must conform to a SPEC

A SPEC mandates that one supply values for its FIELDS

A SPREADSHEET has many CELLS which correspond to to FIELDS of its chose SPEC Received on Fri Oct 19 2007 - 20:34:08 CEST