By using cascading referential integrity constraints, you can define the actions that SQL Server 2005 takes when a user tries to delete or update a key to which existing foreign keys point.

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I am working on a DB project for school and am almost ready to create my tables. I am unsure as to when I turn on referential integrity. Do I create the tables, do my initial data import, and then ...

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 ...

A referential integrity constraint can exist between data files in the same or different SAS libraries with these restrictions: If the library of a data set containing a foreign key integrity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...