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 ...

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 ...

There are two important, yet different aspects of integrity with respect to databases: database structure integrity and semantic data integrity. Ensuring that each database object is created, ...

Want to improve the integrity of your data? Place constraints in the database, as well as in your application. NoSQL, the catchall phrase for non-relational databases, is all the rage among Web ...