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Database without Foreign Key Constraints

Madhu.149Sep 23 2014 — edited Jan 28 2015

Dear All,

Database: Oracle Database 11gR2 11.2.0.1

DB Version: SE1

Can we design a database without foreign key constraints? Is it a good design?

Do we face problem in future, if so?

With Foreign Key:

I have one parent table and many child tables.

If I have to delete the parent data? then I need to consider child tables also.

Ex:

Table 1: ENG_BOOK (ISBN(pk), BOOK_DETAIL, DELETE_FLAG)

Table 2: CUSTOMER_ORDER (ORDER_NO(pk), ISBN(fk), QTY, UNIT_PRICE)

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