Ch.4 Part 2 Flashcards

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What are the relational database design rules?

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Entity integrity: Primary key cannot be null(empty)

Referential integrity: If a foreign key is null, it must have a value corresponds to the primary key or another table

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Relational data tables

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For data to relate from one table to another table, the data tables must have a specific structure using primary keys which uniquely identifies information for that table

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Example of primary keys in relational data tables

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Primary key for sales table is sales table invoice number and primary key for customer table is customer number

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