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bevan
2005 Jun 27
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FK constraints overrated?
...ap,
data junk.
However, I''ve also learned the hard way that FKs constraints imposes
serious difficulties when moving data around, specially between
different DBs, or for loading test data or for upgrading DBs schemas, or
for porting DBs and other special data mangling outside the well-bevahed
application CRUD functionality.
So, I was thinking, why is FK contraints good? For one thing, they
improve performance by indexing the FK fields (at least in the good
RDMSes), but that can be done independently. And then, the most obvious
reason and most beneficial, they enforce data integri...