Benefits of declaring foreign key links.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/23/05 6:25 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> Yes, but one would only need to use FindValue(anRid) to go from the parent
> to the child.  When going from child to parent one can simply use the
> ObjectPtr as the recID or one can instead use a UByte or UShort value_Ptr to
> the RecId field of the parent table as if it were a BytePtr or ShortPtr.

Ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

You keep in UByte or UShort value_Ptr    RecID values.

So yes this should win always. Because files are smaller.

 
> Ok. 
> 
> Unless you find anything to disagree with in what I've said here, I think I
> now the issues involved very well.

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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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