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rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
But I sure wouldn't limit them to integrity only.
Hear, hear!
Triggers are the correct answer WHENEVER you need some action to be
taken BASED ON FILE DATA BEING MODIFIED, WITHOUT REGARD TO HOW, WHY, OR
WITH WHAT PROGRAM.
Building your side effect into the application (or more likely, into
some exit program called by your application) blatantly ignores the very
real possibility that some other application (or utility) might modify
the data. It also blatantly ignores the fact that even the OS/400 world
is a world of commodity software, in which (for most installations)
having even a minor customization added to a canned application will
frequently cost more than the application itself.
Simon's dogmatic pontification on this subject reminds me of all the
knockdown-dragout food fights over The Cycle.
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