It often seems that working around things is a full-time task in every area of information technology. When workarounds are conceived and deployed, people are not always in agreement. Beyond ...

Ensuring the integrity of the organization’s databases is a key component of the DBA’s job. A database is of little use if the data it contains is inaccurate or if it cannot be accessed due to ...

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 ...

Data tells us who our best customers are, which staff members perform well and how to improve efficiency in our businesses. Companies need this data to make the right decisions about their current and ...

The pharmaceutical industry’s approach to data integrity has been historically manual, leveraging physical documentation and potentially unreliable paper-based ...