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152: The Future Database with Sam Lambert

Programming Throwdown

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MySQL - Foreign Key Constraints vs Foreign Keys

Foreign key constraints are not a scalable pattern. A foreign key constraint is when the database will automatically do that cascading for you. It's very much within our philosophy to say let's inform users and give them things primitives to use, maybe has a little bit of an upfront kind of extra complexity but in the long run you pay it down.

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