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RE: Are people really using Identity constraints specified in

• To: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Are people really using Identity constraints specified in XML schema?
• From: "Prakash, Prakash Yamuna, Yamuna" <techpy@y...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
• In-reply-to: <20040823081409.GDSQ12743.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@Turtle>

 > The constraints are driven by the organizational policies. If the organizational policies require that employees must be over 16, then they need  to be enforced.  

 

That's precisely the assumption I was complaining about. If the MD of your subsidiary in Egypt tells you that he has just hired a 14-year-old tea-boy, then in most organizations that I know of it's not the job of the IT department to tell him he shouldn't have done that: IT is the servant, not the master. When the crunch comes, the tea-boy won't be fired (and even if he is, the IT system will have to record the fact).

 

The way to enforce an organizational policy on recruitment is by having a process for approving all hiring of employees, not by restricting the capabilities of the employee database.

 

Michael Kay

 

 

 

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