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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres and referential integrities
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Date: 24 Jul 89 20:04:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: davidm@cimshop.UUCP (David Masterson)

In article <442@cimshop.UUCP>, davidm@cimshop (David Masterson) writes:
>I'm curious, Jon, can you give an example of how Ingres implements "a more
>general way" of referential integrity (hope I'm not paraphrasing too much).

It doesn't.  Thus my phrasing: "RTI's desire to implement it in a more
general way".  Between their desire and delivery of a robust set of
tools lies a tough problem, which neither RTI nor any other vendor has
solved.

-- Jon
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