FW: [Zope-DB] Re: How do you do update with multiple tables

[Charlie Clark]

Don't forget than you can do separate DB acts within one Zope transaction 
which usually means that things work out very well.

ie. you insert a new user and a new computer and you need to link the two 
records via a foreign key such as the computer id which you might let the 
RDBMS generate for you. Within a single transaction you can be *certain* 
that once you have inserted the pc, the *current* value of the id sequence 
will be the correct foreign key for your user. Exactly how this works will 
depend on your RDBMS (MySQL / MS SQL) in your case, I think so check your 
documentation. But Zope takes all the hard work out of the synchronisation 
for you.

If you're going relational, stay relational, rigidly.
http://www.dbdebunk.com/

On 2004-04-30 at 22:08:12 [+0200], Laura McCord wrote:
> 
> I was thinking the same thing and I tried that but doesn't that mean
> that when I insert a new user I would have to know the pcid? When I
> enter the user info I want it to be easy enough for the user to be able
> to enter the name of the pc instead of the id. However, when I do the
> update there is no pcid in the users table that will trigger the
> users.pcname to update.
> 
> Make sense?
-- 
Charlie Clark
eGenix.com

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