And lo and behold, these kinds of workarounds have now largely been labelled as “best practices” by DBMS vendors. Today, one is likely to find many relational database implementations that simply do ...

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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 ...

Using Marten, it's possible to enforce the referential integrity between the Player and Kingdom. There are two methods to accomplish this. Configuring Referential Integrity with Attributes The first ...

Federal Circuit found the self-referential table was directed to a specific improvement, unlike Alice, where claims added a computer to traditional business ...

I'm giving myself a crash course on database design before I take on a quite enormous project. I'm starting by reading through my semi-introductory book, MySQL by Michael Kofler (2001).As I go, I ...