Abstract: When a web service or application evolves, its database schema - tables, constraints, and indices - often need to evolve along with it. Depending on the database, some of these changes ...

It would be useful to have the method Inspector.get_unique_constraints implemented for SQL Server. My immediate use case is that alembic uses this method to detect unique constraints, and it would be ...

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When designing objects in SQL Server, we must follow certain best practices. For example, a table should have primary keys, identity columns, clustered and unclustered indexes, data integrity and ...

The latest problem New York City restaurants are facing: Restaurants in the city can open at 50 percent capacity, and some customers don’t want to leave as reunion dinners and drinks drag on. Now, ...

Constraints in SQL are used to define rules for the table and columns in a database and also make sure that data are accurate and trusted in the database. Constraints are responsible for the ...