Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Foreign Keys vs Performance
Author Alexandre Benson Smith
Adam wrote:

>There are two sides pulling against each other. The purist would
>demand each FK explicitly defined, and there is good argument for
>this. If you do not define the FK, then you must write custom triggers
>to emulate a FK, and risk inconsistent data if you do it wrong. At
>least with FK's defined, you can not possibly store a child record
>without a parent record to reference.
>
>
I am a purist, I will be a happier purist when FB 2.0 is out and the
problem with lot of duplicates are gone forever. :-)

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
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THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
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