Business Rules

Today we have a guest editorial reminding us that business knowledge is important, and we could all use some training.

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Enforce business rules with indexed views and a two-row table

Here’s a technique that uses a view with a unique index and a dummy table with only two rows to trick SQL Server into enforcing your business rules.

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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)

SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';