When designing an SQL database, there may be cases where you want to impose restrictions on what data can be added to certain columns in a table. SQL makes this possible through the use ofconstraints. After applying a constraint to a column or table, any attempts to add data to the colu...
As mentioned in the introduction, views arevirtual tables. This means that although a view is functionally similar to a table, it is a different type of structure since the view doesn’t hold any data of its own. Instead, it pulls in data from one or morebase tablesthat actually hold th...
SQL Server Management Studio AKA SSMS is the most popular and powerful tool to manage, configure, administer and do other uncountable operations in SQL Server. So, we can create a view through SSMS. We will launch SSMS and login the database with any user who granted to create a view. Ex...
Database design – including where and how to use constraints – is essential to the correct function of your database. To properly implement database constraints in SQL Server, you must understand all the requirements and execute them accordingly. How would you do this? This article will explai...
The preexisting indexes are available to concurrent users for select, insert, update, and delete operations. This includes bulk inserts (supported but not recommended during an online index operation) and implicit updates by triggers and referential integrity constraints. All preexisting indexes are av...
--Use sys.all_sql_modules system view to get information if table is used --in a Stored Procedure SELECTOBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID),definition FROMsys.all_sql_modules WHEREdefinitionLIKE'%vw_Employee%'
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MS SQL Server Operators: CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY FOREIGN KEY UNIQUE DEFAULT CHECK Table of Contents Problem Example Solution Discussion Problem You want to find the names of the constraints in a table in SQL Server. Example We want to display the names of the constraints in the tablestudent. ...
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Third, if a view has any constraint, you must specify the CASCADE CONSTRAINT clause to drop all referential integrity constraints that refer to primary key and unique keys in the view. If you don’t do so, then the DROP VIEW statement will fail in case such constraints exist. Oracle DROP...