Phoenix.pm: "Why Not To Use Foreign Keys" ?
Bill Lindley
wlindley at wlindley.com
Wed Apr 21 09:14:53 CDT 2004
...linked from a Slashdot thread, it's the MySQL developers eating
humble pie... funny reading in a 'cvs commit' diff..
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- at cindex foreign keys, reasons not to use
+ at cindex foreign keys, why not implemented
-There are so many problems with foreign key constraints that we don't
-know where to start:
+Many database scholars and programmers feel very strongly that
+referential integrity should be enforced inside the database server.
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much more at
http://lists.mysql.com/internals/1771
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