Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema.

As enterprises expand into a multi-cloud ecosystem, the need for role-based data masking is growing exponentially. IT leaders ...

What does referential integrity actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

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 environment, InnoDB support probably ...

Referential integrity has not disappeared as something of value; instead, it has remained where it always was before databases, i.e., when needed, it is done inside application code. Aren’t we clever ...

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 ...

Inserting Document with Referential Integrity To prevent the exception from being thrown, the BirthKingdom set in the new Player must refer to an existing Kingdom document Id. Notice in Listing 3 that ...