________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) When designing tables for use by your application, do you include foreign keys in your design, or do you prefer to handle the logic within the application? Please, DO NOT ALLOW JAVA DEVELOPER to get even close to data modelling. If you do then he must qualify as data modeller as such. This discipline has nothing to do with Java. Fyrirvari/Disclaimer http://www.landsbanki.is/disclaimer