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  3. February 2005

RE: Prototyped Procedures

Yeah, I remember that all too clearly myself with BPCS, Ron.  Of course,
nowadays, people allow direct ODBC access to their database -- I can't
think of anything worse.  Even with triggers in place, there's nothing
stopping someone from changing descriptions or prices, or even
transaction dates, unless you have a WHOLE lot of code in your trigger
(and that's a different debate).

Joe

> From: RPower@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> No, my comments were meant for scenario number 2.  I just remember
that
> the company supplied all the source code and I found too many clients
> barbarized the data because they took the source and made 'custom'
> versions.

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