At 10:37 PM 8/03/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Helen,
>
>Why even use a trigger if you are using generatorlinks for all your
>inserts? Or, why use generatorlinks if you are using a trigger? It
>seems to me that you should only use one or the other, but not both,
>or am I missing something?

The trigger implements and enforces a business rule. It ensures that the
table can get a PK, regardless of the interface that is used for inserts.
It's a design mistake to assume that your application is the only one that
will ever insert rows into the tables.

In your particular applications, if you have reasons to want to know what
the PK is, then you use generatorlinks. In the typical Delphi application,
you *do* want to know, because updates, deletes and refreshes are
positioned on the PK; and because you often want to form master-detail
relationships between sets inside the same transaction context.


Helen