Hi Ryan, Okay, thanks for the clarification! Your explanation makes sense!
Best, Manuel On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:25 PM R Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2019/05/13 11:42 AM, Manuel Rigger wrote: > > Hi Ryan, > > > > I hope my question did not offend you. I didn't expect that the answer to > > this question would be considered to be that obvious. > > Goodness, I was not offended and apologies if my reply read in that way > - it was just an honest account - and - if I were to stoop so low as to > "take offense" at a question, I would never answer it publicly. > > Please know that it is obvious to most Database people (er... what is a > good word...? shall we say "Afficionados"?), but that in no way means > that you *should* have known or that I (or most others here) would scoff > at anyone not knowing this. I once did not know this, and now to me it > was nothing but an opportunity to teach/relay that which I have been > taught. > > As to the question, let me see if I could entice your mind to see the > obviousness with us: Try to imagine how you would program a database > engine upon which constraints could be placed, the underlying methods or > values of which may persist in separate files/schemata/tables which may > all be transacted upon from alternate connections while they are not in > view, or not accessible to the engine itself, but the engine is still > expected to uphold the constraints. > > I am hoping that after some thinking on the matter, either the > obviousness would materialize for you, or possibly you will come up with > a method that could change the face of RDBMS capabilities forever! > > I'm hoping for the latter, but will take the former as a second prize. :) > > > Cheers! > > Ryan > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
