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 ...

There are two categories of integrity constraints: General constraints, which allow you to restrict the data values that are accepted for the variables in a single data file, such as requiring that ...

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 ...