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Personally, I'd say yes, add the constraints.
Everything Michael Earl said is true. You can simply rely on the fact that the application has the integrity covered. However, as a DBA,...
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November 14, 2007 at 6:48 am
Well, let's say you have 30 different fields, all customizable by the user. This particular user only uses 5 of the fields, the other 25 lie fallow. When you insert...
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November 14, 2007 at 5:50 am
Congratulations. Wonderful achievement.
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November 14, 2007 at 5:39 am
Foreign keys do not directly help performance. They are simply constraints on the data.
What you're saying is, that the developers are not like the rest of us humans. They make...
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November 14, 2007 at 5:37 am
Except if there are gaps (which there usually are) and you really need exactly every nth record from some particular order. Then you still have to do some kind of...
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November 13, 2007 at 7:01 am
That's right there with my take on it, but I tried supplying the ID field in case the table didn't have one, or there were gaps or whatever. "Every 'X'"...
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November 12, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I think it's a fine idea.
I'd still want to be able to comment on any article from a vendor. That would tend to keep the playing field level and honest....
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November 12, 2007 at 10:22 am
Slightly off topic...
We had the planet argument in our house too. My daughter was just adamant that there were nine planets and Pluto was one of them. She was ripped...
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November 12, 2007 at 6:44 am
Oh updates to XML... Well, you just update the whole thing. You don't try to modify subsets within the string. Rely on the app to do that heavy lifting here....
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November 12, 2007 at 6:32 am
Oh believe me, we can nail Betty Jean's hide to the wall with the traces.
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November 12, 2007 at 6:16 am
Coming to the discussion late...
I've worked both sides of the issue. From the consultant side, things just get gray very quickly. If I know more than anyone on your staff,...
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November 12, 2007 at 6:03 am
deb (11/8/2007)
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November 12, 2007 at 5:32 am
There are a number of scripts available on this site that will analyze the indexes and perform a defrag or a reindex depending on the level of fragementation. It shouldn't...
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November 12, 2007 at 5:18 am
Sorry I haven't gotten back to you, I was out of town.
Yeah, that's approximately the format I was thinking of. It's just better when you have 'x' number of potential...
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November 12, 2007 at 4:24 am
My well is over 700ft down. Can I just add a couple of pipes & use that?
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November 2, 2007 at 11:39 am
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