--- rudy <r937 at interlog.com> wrote: > your choices are to disallow the delete, or to delete all the > related > records > automatically as well > > most people choose to disallow, forcing the user to delete the > related > items individually, before the category can be deleted > > perhaps my relational integrity article may help -- > > RI to the Rescue!! > http://evolt.org/article/foo/18/13276/index.html Ahh that makes perfect sense. I will read the article, thanks! Tom ===== var me = tom.pixelmech.webDeveloper(); http://www.pixelmech.com/ http://www.maccaws.com/ [Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com