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Many:Many with Shared Relation

I'm modelling data with multiplicity like this: Each Composition/Anthology related pair must share a Composer. Also, each Anthology must contain at least one Composition. How would you recommend I ...
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How to represent class table inheritance (current DBMS-specific way please)?

I want to implement class either-or table inheritance (Account, CatAccountDetails, DogAccountDetails) in SQL Server. I found a recommendation for MySQL here (How do I map an IS-A relationship into a ...
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Optimised Schema for City-to-City Distance Table

This is my first question, forgive me if this question is simple. I'm stuck here, trying to implement the relations for the data represented below. I want to scale it vertically (new rows), instead of ...
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Dump PostgreSQL schema with foreign keys and referenced data

The official PostgreSQL documentation states that pg_dump can use the --schema=SCHEMA option to selectively dump a given schema. However according to the same documentation (read Note on ...
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Mysql error while creating FK

here is structure of both tables category table CREATE TABLE category ( `catID` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `title` varchar(60) NOT NULL, `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT ...
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What is the optimal solution for converting a database schema?

I actually want to get rid of the existing constraints in the database which I know sounds crazy but we are upgrading our application to a new framework which relies on the foreign key constraint ...