>How do I recall a specific record in a table that has been deleted? My table has a primary key (e_id) that I need to lookup by, and then restore that record.
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>Thanks
>Nick Patel
Your question itself was already answered.
However, in general, I find it practical to consider deleted records as "gone".
In other words, once the user confirms he wants to delete the record, your program need not provide a mechanism to recover them.
In emergency situations, of course, the programmer might do some maintenance - directly from the command window. But these emergencies should be rare.
If you distribute your application to hundreds of clients, this is not practical - in this case, the instruction should be something like: "to recover deleted data, you have to restore from your backup".
Finally, you should enable referential integrity. Thus, a record that has related data in other records CAN NOT be deleted.
Hilmar.
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