| From: | Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> |
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| To: | pdxpug(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Acronymic Question -- ANSWERED |
| Date: | 2009-03-03 20:05:09 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.LNX.2.00.0903031204241.2114@salmo.appl-ecosys.com |
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
> In a book I'm reading I see many references to 'DRI' without any
> explanation of to what that acronym points. However, a Google search
> reveals that it stands for Declarative Referential Integrity and, in the
> same breath, mentions SQL Server. I've never before come across this
> acronym. Am I correct in assuming that DRI is a Microsoftism and not
> common in RDBMSs such as PostgreSQL and SQLite?
Brain woke up and answered my own question: DRI means declaring foreign
keys in the DDL.
Rich
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