Re: database integrity

From: Tony Andrews <andrewst_at_onetel.com>
Date: 19 May 2005 05:55:37 -0700
Message-ID: <1116507337.775726.148290@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

mountain man wrote:
> Q1: What is database integrity?
>
> A1: A measure of the self-referential consistency of all
> the relations existent between the physical data elements
> defined in the schema of a database.
>
> Any disagreements, improvements, comments?

Some thoughts:
- you use the word "relation" in the sense of "relationship", and not in the relational sense ("relation" ~= "table"), which could be confusing
- why "physical" data elements? Integrity is logical surely?

So perhaps, and with additional simplifications:

A2: A measure of the consistency of the relationships between the data elements defined in a database. Received on Thu May 19 2005 - 07:55:37 CDT