A design specification and a server implementation of the inverse referential integrity constraints
Computer Science and Information Systems2013Vol. 10(1), pp. 283–320
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Abstract
The inverse referential integrity constraints (IRICs) are specialization of non-key-based inclusion dependencies (INDs). Keybased INDs (referential integrity constraints) may be fully enforced by most current relational database management systems (RDBMSs). On the contrary, non-key-based INDs are completely disregarded by actual RDBMSs, obliging the users to manage them via custom procedures and/or triggers. In this paper we present an approach to the automated implementation of IRICs integrated in the SQL Generator tool that we developed as a part of the IIS