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Re: select + insert vs. insert and catching exception

From: Karsten Farell <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:45:41 GMT
Message-ID: <VlKk9.3199$8Q.84281520@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>


I stand corrected. You *can* modify the value of a PK (must be that lack of intelligence). However, you'd still face having to change the phone number in any table where it's a FK if you change it where it's a PK.

Jaap W. van Dijk wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:55:02 GMT, Karsten Farell
> <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com> wrote:
>
> (...)
>

>>In Oracle, you cannot modify the value 
>>of a PK. 

>
> (...)
>
> Proof that! You can't because it is not true.
>
> Jaap.
Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 15:45:41 CDT

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