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Check constraints are supported in all of the major DBMS products, including DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server. But they are too-often ignored and not implemented in production databases. Properly defined, ...
Want to improve the integrity of your data? Place constraints in the database, as well as in your application. NoSQL, the catchall phrase for non-relational databases, is all the rage among Web ...
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 ...
Discovering Denial Constraints Integrity Constraints (ICs) provide a valuable tool for enforcing correct application semantics. However, designing ICs requires experts and time.
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 ...