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 ...

It often seems that working around things is a full-time task in every area of information technology. When workarounds are conceived and deployed, people are not always in agreement. Beyond ...

Marten is an open source .NET document database library that allows the storage, loading, updating and deleting of objects as documents in an underlying PostgreSQL database. Even though Marten stores ...

Safeguarding data is a fundamental function of data governance—and that extends to the data used by developers. But how do you maintain test data utility when masking sensitive information?

Vanilla MySQL doesn't support any sort of referential integrity. You can use "InnoDB" tables (here) that add that functionality. If you're in a shared hosting ...

A database management safeguard that ensures every foreign key matches a primary key. For example, customer numbers in a customer file are the primary keys, and customer numbers in the order file are ...