RE: Quick Poll - How do you enforce referential integrty?

We do #1.

Hoss

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bipes [mailto:chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Quick Poll - How do you enforce referential integrty?

A combination of all three ((

Really old application use 3.
Old application use 1.
New standard is 2. 


Chris Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.

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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:44 PM
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Subject: Quick Poll - How do you enforce referential integrty?

Say you have an Order Header/Order Detail relationship. You're writing
an application that deletes the Order Header record.  How does your shop
handle referential integrity?

1.  We do it programmatically-- our application looks in the Order
Detail 
     file and makes sure there are no corresponding Order Detail
records.
2.  Our shop standards require we create constraints through DB2/400.
3.  We don't bother checking.  We just delete the Order Header record. 

Thanks

-Ed


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