Restricting selection

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From: Stephen R. Willson
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:49

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    Monday's baseball expansion draft got me thinking about a database
question.  During at least the first round of the draft, no more than one
player from each team could be taken by Tampa or Denver.  If I for some
reason had setup a database of all the players eligible for the draft, how
could I implement this restriction.  If one player from the Boston Red Sox
has already been selected, how could I lock out selecting a second player
from the Red Sox?  Does a database program exist that makes such
restrictions easy to implement?  One particular application which I am
interested in is evaluating economic proposals which are either mutually
exclusive, mutually dependent, or mutually independent of other proposals.
 Does anyone have experience with designing a database for such an
application?

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