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 ...

The term "data integrity" can mean different things to different people, but the most difficult and pervasive problem facing organizations these days is the semantic integrity of the data. As ...

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 ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an ...

A variety of scenarios such as database system and application testing, data masking, and benchmarking require synthetic database instances, often having complex data characteristics. The authors ...

Being able to develop software applications quickly and efficiently has become a key factor in an organization’s ability to maintain an edge over the competition. In a recent webinar, Kyle Hailey, ...