December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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Implementing Procedural Data Integrity
Procedural integrity can be implemented with stored procedures, triggers, and application code. It requires custom programming that defines and enforces the integrity of the data. The biggest benefits of implementing procedural data integrity are flexibility and control. You can implement the custom code in many different ways to enforce the integrity of your data. The custom code can also be a detriment; the lack of consistency and potential inefficiencies in the way the data integrity is performed can be a real problem.
In general, declarative data integrity should be used as the primary means for control. Procedural data integrity can be used to augment declarative data integrity, if needed.