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Automatically guessing foreign key constraints

2017-04-102018-07-15 / Daniel Hutmacher / 4 Comments

With good naming and datatyping conventions, an automated script can help you with the process of creating foreign key constraints across your database, or actually, suggest table relations where you’ve forgotten to implement them.

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Directed acyclic graphs vs parent-child hierarchies

2014-05-252014-04-09 / Daniel Hutmacher / 1 Comment

We’ve recently looked at ways to work with parent-child hierarchies, particularly in reporting scenarios. Regular parent-child hierarchies are great when working with dimensions that are ragged, but they have a critical limitation – any given node in the tree can only have a single parent node. A great solution to this problem is a DAG – directed acyclic graph.

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Traversing parent-child relations

2014-01-262014-01-21 / Daniel Hutmacher / Leave a comment

In this short tutorial, we’ll look at traversing parent-child structures using recursive common table expressions, and turning the data into human-readable lists. This is a great way to represent paths and hierarchy-based data in reports and end-user outputs.

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Working with dependencies

2013-11-032013-10-03 / Daniel Hutmacher / Leave a comment

Working with dependencies, particularly recursive dependencies, may not always be entirely intuitive, but it could be critical knowledge in your database development work. This article focuses primarily on different ways of visualizing dependencies and how to loop through them using recursive common table expressions.

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