Chapter 15. Maintaining Referential Integrity

Referential integrity, an essential concept, lies at the very heart of relational database development. Ideally, the end users of your solutions take referential integrity for granted — and you, as developer, place it before many other considerations. We think it's important enough to devote an entire chapter to the topic because we know that without referential integrity, all your beautifully built solutions will crumble and come to nothing.