On 2/12/07, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oracle Apps - Not quite as sure about it, but I believe its origins predate the use of referential integrity in the database.
A history of Oracle Apps would be helpful here, and I can't find one using google. Declarative RI in Oracle is over a decade old as it happens (at least Oracle 7). RI from a db design point of view dates back I think to the mid-eighties, but then even ERP isn't that old! -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l