Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Sun Feb 2 14:47:00 CST 2003
Hi John I wonder why you constantly miss the point. For all those horror scenarios you paint up, all of us - me, Jeanine, John B, Andy, yourself and any responsible developer - would of course set cascade-delete to off. But for the purpose of automatic clean-up of otherwise completely useless and orphane data, I have never seen cascade-deleting fail. I have enough else to do than to recode tools already there. Seems like you can join a club with Arthur and Drew on building delete queries! > I can now walk (or remote access) into your environment and wreak havoc with > your database, not having a clue how things relate to other things etc. > Don't think for a minute it doesn't happen. I am hired by the engineering > office down the hall (or on the other side of the country). You don't even > know I exist. I delete your stuff. You jump up and down, swear, shoot your > users, are arrested and hauled off to jail. And I don't even know that you > are angry. I hope this is a joke. At least it's not the way I entry unknown land. And I would make a backup as the very first step. Then no one gets angry - not even yourself when you make a mistake. /gustav