>>>In the brief period when I used DBC/DBF I never used the RI or triggers. Didn't trust them. (Steve Sawyer once gave a great presentation on why that distrust was well-founded)
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>>>Now use them even less :-) but a couple quesitons
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>>>Are there any circumstances when they do no fire.
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>>>For example ; Sql insert / delete from a table. Should it fire the RI code to delete children?
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>>>Browse, mark record as deleted. RI fire?
>>>
>>>Manual insert / update ?
>>>
>>>TIA
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>>I believe in all these cases the RI triggers should fire. Did you find a case when it's not so?
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>I'll have to retest, but I think if one browses a parent, marks a row for delete, the casade delete does not happen in children but I will have to test again.

Try re-testing after moving a record pointer.