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  • Subject: Re: Referencial Integrity - Was: RPG Cycle
  • From: Vanja Jovic <vanja@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:26:06 -0700

Martin,

boothm@earth.Goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> No. Don't write a program with matching records to find orphans.  It works
> great and runs like lightning, but the last time I did that the supervisor
> looked at the 10 lines of code and gave the project to a "real programmer"
> who did it in less than a day and less than 100 lines of code.
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> http://www.spy.net/~booth
> _______________________
> 

        or use SQL to solve a problem in 4 lines (that doesn't guarantee that
the project won't be given to a "real programmer" for corrections). SQL
is also politically correct solution as it doesn't cause cycle wars. RI
might be good idea, especially to force some people to finally start
handling I/O exceptions :))))).

Have fun,

Vanja Jovic,
Canada
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