July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
10h 3m
English
Declarative Referential Integrity (DRI) ensures integrity of the database by a properly managed primary key and foreign key relationship. Correctly defined primary keys and foreign keys help query optimizer to select the best-suited execution plan for the query.
It has been observed many times that developers create a master table with a primary key and use that primary key field in the child table but don't define a foreign key in the table schema. This is not a good practice because by initiating a foreign key in the child table, you ensure that each record in the child table has a reference key in the parent table. This is a good thing, right? But, let us clarify that, by maintaining ...
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