[thelist] Learning SQL

At 22:46 5/01/00 +0100, you wrote:

>You say it, _as long as_ . That's exactly the problem. In data critical
>applications these kind of errors can be desastrous and well , we don't want
>that to be even remotely possible, do we ?

That's correct, I'd rather a script die ungracefully with an untrapped 
error than corrupting a database.

I was just pointing out that MySQL's lack of foreign key support doesn't 
reduce functionality. It just makes things less safe.

(on a side note ..  i wonder *why* mysql doesn't support foreign keys..)

Ol.

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