> > It's much easier and safer to declare your constraints rather than trying to enforce them. > Furthermore I am not sure how this relates to FP. I'm saying

> > It's much easier and safer to declare your constraints rather than trying to enforce them. > Furthermore I am not sure how this relates to FP. I'm saying that FP is great for ensuring correctness. > But that is a strong point of RDBMs implementing SQL. Right. And if I didn't have other functional languages available that might be a bigger issue.