Referential integrity (RI) is a method for ensuring the 'correctness' of data within a DBMS. People tend to oversimplify RI, stating that it is merely the identification of relationships between ...

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

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 ...

Click Here for a copy of the opinion. Enfish sued Microsoft for infringing two “self-referential” database patents, Patents 6,151,604 and 6,163,775.