Aligns the article with the repo convention used by the sibling data-modeling files: the .good.al reference belongs under Best Practice and the .bad.al reference under Anti Pattern. Previously both pointers sat under Anti Pattern, leaving the good-sample reference orphaned in the wrong section.
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Three related concerns, each proven by executable tests rather than recall.
They were extracted from a real defect that shipped through a six-reviewer
panel undetected, which is the admission test passing on behavior rather than
on theory.
owning-table-must-delete-dependents-in-ondelete
AL has no cascading delete. What makes it missable is an asymmetry: the
platform DOES keep references correct on rename via TableRelation, so a
developer who learns that and generalizes it to delete ships orphans. Also
notes the permission trap (delete rights needed on the dependent table, not
just the parent).
validate-table-relation-false-suppresses-rename-propagation
The non-obvious half. The property name implies input validation only, but
disabling it also switches off rename propagation. Verified against a parent
renamed once while a child held three fields: a normal relation (follows),
the same relation with validation disabled (does NOT follow), and a field
with no relation at all (does not follow) — the third being the control that
proves the test can detect a non-propagating field.
xrec-is-a-before-image-only-in-some-triggers
Corrects both the naive belief that xRec is always the previous record and
the folk rule that it 'only works from a page'. The behavior is per-trigger:
a genuine before-image in OnRename and OnDelete regardless of driver, a
mirror of Rec in OnInsert/OnModify when driven from code, and a real
before-image in those two only when a page drove the write. That last
asymmetry is why an OnModify comparison against xRec passes manual page
testing and silently no-ops in a job queue.
Targets /community per CONTRIBUTING — general BC knowledge, not fork-specific.
Frontmatter validator clean; Test-ReviewFixtures passes (32 cases, 16 leaves).
