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 ...

Referential integrity has not disappeared as something of value; instead, it has remained where it always was before databases, i.e., when needed, it is done inside application code. Aren’t we clever ...

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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 ...