2018-08-27
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Foreign Keys (FK)
2018-06-05
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2016-08-16
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2016-08-02
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2016-07-05 (first published: 2016-05-26)
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Trust, or Verify – How FKs Can (or Cannot) Help Performance
Learn how trusted foreign keys (FK) can help or hurt performance.
2018-08-24 (first published: 2016-03-08)
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Foreign Key Indexes and Binding
Understand what FK's do and how they use indexes. Then use my script to see if they're using good indexes.
2018-06-29 (first published: 2016-02-10)
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Auto-suggesting foreign keys and data model archaeology
If you can understand the data model then you can understand the intent of the application developers.
2018-07-06 (first published: 2016-01-26)
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2015-10-07
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Indexing Foreign Keys
Foreign Keys are one of the fundamental characteristics of relational databases and enforce the referential integrity. Is it a good idea to index a FK relationship? When can it help?
2016-09-16 (first published: 2015-06-29)
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