Understanding Your Database
Steve notes that many of us might not completely understand every part of our database, but it's information that can be helpful in cleaning out unnecessary entities.
2019-04-10
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Database Design and Implementation
The Cost of Useless Surrogate Keys in Relationship Tables
What’s a good natural key? This is a very difficult question for most entities when you design your schema. In some rare cases, there seems to be an “obvious” candidate, such as a variety of ISO standards.
2019-04-05
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How Many Nested Triggers?
I have DDL trigger code that I'm working on in SQL Server 2022, but I am concerned that we might end up with multiple triggers firing and the response to the user is delayed. If I want to check how many triggers have fired, or are nested, how can I do this in my code?
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