>Hmmm . . . Maybe you all can teach me something here. I thought RI was for just this purpose. Why don't you create a cascade trigger to delete the orphan child records automatically?
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>Absent that, why not a simple sub tied to the parent delete method to kill off the child records either automatically or manually?
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I think you didn't read my question properly. Anyway, I figured a solution.