April 2001
Beginner
792 pages
17h 51m
English
This is the final chapter that discusses techniques to enforce data integrity, and as a summary, you can propose which ways are recommended to enforce data integrity:
To uniquely identify every row, define a PRIMARY KEY constraint. This is one of the first rules to apply to designing a normalized database. Searching for values contained in a PRIMARY KEY is fast because there is a UNIQUE INDEX supporting the PRIMARY KEY.
To enforce uniqueness of required values in a column or group of columns, other than the PRIMARY KEY, define a UNIQUE constraint. This constraint does not produce much overhead because there is a UNIQUE INDEX supporting this constraint. ...
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