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Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
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Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design

by Scott W. Ambler, Pramod J. Sadalage
March 2006
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 42m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 8Referential Integrity Refactorings

Referential integrity refactorings are changes that ensure that a referenced row exists within another table and/or that ensures that a row that is no longer needed is removed appropriately. The referential integrity refactorings are as follows:

• Add Foreign Key Constraint

• Add Trigger For Calculated Column

• Drop Foreign Key Constraint

• Introduce Cascading Delete

• Introduce Hard Delete

• Introduce Soft Delete

• Introduce Trigger For History

Add Foreign Key Constraint

Add a foreign key constraint to an existing table to enforce a relationship to another table.

Motivation

The primary reason to apply Add Foreign Key Constraint is to enforce data dependencies at the database level, ...

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