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 ...

Say we have two types of tools: hammers and wrenches. We have a list of work orders, and we want to track what tool was used for the hammering and what was used for the wrenching. The problem is that ...

Referential integrity helps manage data by enforcing validation between related entities. This enforcement follows logical semantics behind the database design -- i.e., an employee can only work for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm in the process of building a SQL clean-up script that will be removing lots of now redundant data from our Oracle DB.<BR><BR>It seems that for tables which contain a FK pointing back to ...