There are so many problems with foreign key constraints that we don't know where to start: Foreign key constraints make life very complicated, because the foreign key definitions must be stored in a ...

It's best practice to declare the foreign keys according to functional dependencies. E.g. if your other table is about salespeople, then its foreign key should refer to Salespeople.

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...