What are the Pros and Cons of Cascading delete and updates?

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Hi,

Maybe this is sort of a naive question...but I think that we should always have cascading deletes and updates. But I wanted to know are there problems with it and when should we should not do it? I really can't think of a case right now where you would not want to do an cascade delete but I am sure there is one...but what about updates should they be done always?

So can anyone please list out the pros and cons of cascading deletes and updates ? Thanks.

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