Cascading referential integrity constraints are foreign key constraints that tell SQL Server to perform certain actions when a primary key field in a primary key-foreign key relationship is updated or ...

Say we have two types of tools: hammers and wrenches. We have a list of work orders, and we want to track what tool was used for the hammering and what was used for the wrenching. The problem is that ...

When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I look at ...

With the advent of the data-driven era, NL2SQL technology has emerged, enabling users to generate database query statements using simple natural language, significantly lowering the barriers to data ...

I've got an interesting constraint I'm trying to add to our database. I can do with with triggers, but am curious if there is a more elegant way to do this in T-SQL (SQL2005, FWIW) We have two related ...

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Big data analytics has traditionally been about developing cutting-edge software to run on commodity hardware. But there are signs that innovation at the hardware layer, such as with GPUs, can take ...