When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I look at ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

I've got an interesting constraint I'm trying to add to our database. I can do with with triggers, but am curious if there is a more elegant way to do this in T-SQL (SQL2005, FWIW) We have two related ...