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lmm on Nov 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: We do not use foreign keys (2016)

I'd argue that any decent application programming language can express these constraints better than SQL can.

spookthesunset on Nov 8, 2019 [–]

How? FK constraints are trivially expressed in SQL. It is just a "REFERENCES table_blah ON DELETE DO BLAH ON UPDATE DO BLAH".

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