On 11 Feb 2011, at 12:26am, BareFeetWare wrote: > On 11/02/2011, at 11:11 AM, Simon Slavin wrote: > >> Erm ... there are also movies which have more than one person directing. >> You need to copy across the rowid from the MoviePeople table, and delete >> just based on that particular record. > > Adding to what Simon said: > > The schema I posted allows for multiple directors for each movie, the same > person having multiple capacities in the same movie (eg writer, director and > actor) etc. Any changes to the model and what's allowed (ie constraints) > should be done there and not in your application layer, IMNSHO. > > If you want to delete or insert, based on text (eg person's name), I suggest > NOT getting your application to get the matching rowid, then reinjected it > into a second SQL call. Do it all in one SQL transaction
Come to think of it, what's really happening here is a FOREIGN KEY situation. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
