Turning off referential integrity allows you to be more lax about the order tables are imported. You can do the import with referential integrity on (you have to be able to; otherwise you wouldn't ...

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 ...

Hi,I'm in the process of building a SQL clean-up script that will be removing lots of now redundant data from our Oracle DB.It seems that for tables which contain a FK pointing back to themselves ...