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 ...

Do you have a large data import that leaves your indexes less than perfect? Do you want to backup your current database before you run a purge package? You are in luck; SSIS contains a handful of ...

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, ...

Cascading referential integrity constraints are foreign key constraints that tell SQL Server to perform certain actions when a primary key field in a primary key-foreign key relationship is updated or ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...