On 2017-11-01 15:21, Bill Anderson wrote:
Mike,
Where's your preference in design with these in mind?<<
My philosophy is that the back end database, whatever it is, should be
a
dumb as a rock. A database should only be concerned with its internal
integrity and no more. Anything else is pretty much geared toward
vendor
lock-in.
But having noted that, FK constraints are absolutely a part of the data
integrity. So yes, use 'em.
Views? Sure, that's basically the only way to communicate. Business
rules?
Nope, stay away. That's for middleware.
Bill Anderson
Hi Bill!
I agree completely.
--Mike
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