Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/29/07 08:17

Tony Rogerson (tonyrogerson@torver.net) writes:
> Don't forget all the other data that get's deleted as well - all the
> tables that reference the Foo table which likely contain time important
> information like order_date, trade_date etc...

Yeah, if there are some cascading foreign keys, or triggers a lot of
things can happen when Joe runs a no-op!



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