Re: [GENERAL] Database Best Practices ???

"amy cheng" wrote:
  >>The refint trigger is to make sure that the address record exists before
  >>the person record is updated; if the relation is new there will not be
  >>anything in person_address yet.
  >I still do not understand. IMHO, "person" should not contain address at all
  >--because of "person-address".
  >
  >>The project is not yet complete, so there may be bugs in it!
  >you defend yourself well, except the "person" one ;-)

I suspect you may be right on that; this was only an extract from a much
larger work, so I haven't got round to reviewing it recently.

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