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Defining constraints in `CREATE TABLE` statements

Recently I have been using a Database Abstraction Layer built by a Python web-framework called web2py (click for their DAL syntax). They include the option to include your constraints within the ...
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SQL set allowed values for a column

I want to make an ALTER TABLE expression which adds a new column and sets a default value and additionaly defines the allowed values for that column. It's a text column, and allowed should be only ...
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Oracle Procedure to Enable/Disable all constraints

I have this nice piece of code: begin for i in ( select constraint_name, table_name from user_constraints where constraint_type ='R' and status = 'ENABLED' ) LOOP execute immediate ...
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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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Would existing constraints and indexes applied to an old table, apply to a new table renamed like the old one after it's dropped?

everything is in the question. I have a table named tableA on which we have indexes and foreign keys and constraints. I have to modify content in a column called column1. This being a production ...
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Dealing with Invisible Referencers

Using Oracle database, suppose I have a parent table parent defined in schema A, and a child table child defined in schema B. To achieve this, schema A granted references privilege on parent to schema ...
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Oracle: DB *partial* constraint?

I am pretty new to Oracle and the database world. I am not sure if the title makes any sense at all, so I'll just go ahead and explain my situation. I currently have a table at hand that records ...
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function based index as a conditional unique key?

I have a search table which has a generated primary key PK_ID,and also has primary keys from three or four other tables in the FK_ID column CREATE TABLE METADATA ( PK_ID NUMBER(10) ...