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

> From: Dave Odom
> 
> As I'm sure you know, however, in order for the iSeries to survive and
> compete for dollars against the likes of the real DB2s, Oracle,
> SQLServer(I shudder), and the many speciality data warehouse/data mart
> implementations, there needs to be a MASSIVE shift in application
> development philosophy and attitude in the iSeries community toward
door
> #2.

Why?  SQL is simply a tool to access relational data.  There is just as
valid a reason to shift to completely encapsulated databases and get
away from the row/column aspects of SQL.

More importantly, the real paradigm shift will be when we design
business rules completely devoid of language concerns, be it SQL, RPG or
anything else.  The next generation of programming will be a combination
of a rigorous, platform- and language-independent logic syntax for
defining business rules along with UML diagramming for application
design.  Deployment will be a simple drag-and-drop of portions of the
application to the appropriate platform, with a wizard to select the
deployment languages as necessary and automatic generation of inter-tier
communications.

Everyone who is arguing about semicolons and namespaces and triggers and
constraints will be out of a job.  That won't stop them from arguing, of
course; heck, it will mean just as much then as it does now <g>.

Joe