It often seems that working around things is a full-time task in every area of information technology. When workarounds are conceived and deployed, people are not always in agreement. Beyond ...

Ensuring the integrity of the organization’s databases is a key component of the DBA’s job. A database is of little use if the data it contains is inaccurate or if it cannot be accessed due to ...

Cascading referential integrity constraints are foreign key constraints that tell SQL Server to perform certain actions when a primary key field in a primary key-foreign key relationship is updated or ...

A new potential characteristic of a SAS data set known as integrity constraints has been added for SAS Version 7 or Version 8. Integrity constraints are a set of data validation rules that preserve ...

Abstract: Key and referential constraints are the two main integrity constraints in database applications. These constraints can be enforced by the Database Management System automatically. Any ...

When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I look at ...