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Symmetric self-referential many-to-many

I'm trying to model a hierarchy of categories where a category can have multiple parents ( an overlapping tree model as described in this book ) I have the following tables video_categories int ...
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How to constrain data

I have 3 tables which are related and a constraint on one of them which I can enforce in software but I don't know how to enforce in the database. I have a series of providers who send a set of data. ...
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MySQL unique constraint across two columns

I have a table defining relationships Src smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL, Dst smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL, other fields I need to add a constraint that says if a given values is present in one of ...
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Finding violations of the symmetry constraint

Suppose I have a table Friends with columns Friend1ID, Friend2ID. I chose to represent each friendship with two records, say (John, Jeff) and (Jeff, John). Thus, each pair of friends should show up ...
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Can this business logic be enforced by a conditional database constraint?

I am trying to duplicate the business logic embodied an intranet C# web application in the database so that other databases can access it and work under the same rules. This "rule" seems difficult to ...
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How to set unique columns combination

see this table: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `default_messages_users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `message_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `owner_user_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `to_user_id` ...
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Proper use of NULL, and utilizing CHECK constraints for business logic vs stored procedures

This question regards the proper use of NULL and utilizing CHECK constraints for business logic vs stored procedures. I have the following tables setup. I normalized the tables to avoid using ...
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is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers

Was designing a table a customer_phone_numbers table a while back, which only purpose was to allow us to store as many phone numbers as a user wanted to have on file. I originally came to the ...
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Is there a name for this “restricted one to many” relationship? Can it be enforced in the DB?

In an application I'm working on, we have a kind of "restricted one-to-many" relationship. I'm wondering if this has a name, and whether it's possible to enforce at the database level. A standard ...
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Maintaining referential integrity in a booking system

I am developing a second version of a corporate training booking system on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. I have 3 tables (simplified for this question). Table 1- CourseSize table- this determines the ...
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Having a unique ID for 2 different tables

We would like to use two different tables, one will hold an object when it is 'Active', and the other will hold the object once it becomes'Non-Active'. The ID is therefore unique per both tables ...
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If A is next to B, how to automatically assert that B is next to A

I am working in Access 2010. Let's say I have a database that tracks where packages sit in a warehouse. Table: Packages PackageID (PK) PackageHeight PackageWidth PackageWeight PackageOwner (etc) ...
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Any way around unique index 16 column max

According to the CREATE INDEX documentation: Up to 16 columns can be combined into a single composite index key. We've got a table with ~18 columns that need to form a unique combination. This ...
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Trusted Constraints and NOT FOR REPLICATION

Version and Build: SQL Server 2005 SP4 (9.0.5000) As a disclaimer of sorts, I am asking this question to generate some discussion and/or debate on the topic. I don't know if there is really a ...