| Seq nr | Name | Goal | Type | Data source▲ | Last update | License | ... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 241 | Base tables that have a surrogate key and all its unique constraints have an optional column | A surrogate key is a primary key that consist of one column. The values of this column do not have any meaning for the user and the system usually generates the values (integers) automatically. In case of defining a surrogate key in a table it is a common mistake to forget declaring existing natural keys in the table. If a key covers an optional column then it does not prevent duplicate rows where some values are missing and other values are equal. Because NULL is not a value and is not duplicate of another NULL the, follwing is possible: CREATE TABLE Uniq(a INTEGER NOT NULL, b INTEGER, CONSTRAINT ak_uniq UNIQUE (a, b)); INSERT INTO Uniq(a, b) VALUES (1, NULL); INSERT INTO Uniq(a, b) VALUES (1, NULL); | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-10-21 11:54 | MIT License | |
| 242 | Base tables that have a surrogate key and do not have any uniqueness constraints | A surrogate key is a key that consist of one column. The values of this column do not have any meaning for the user and the system generates the values (integers) automatically. In case of defining a surrogate key in a table it is a common mistake to forget declaring existing natural keys in the table. The query discards tables with only one column. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-10-26 17:47 | MIT License | |
| 243 | Base tables that have no uniqueness requirement for rows whatsoever | Find base tables without any unique constraints and primary key as well as any unique index, whether it is created explicitly by a developer or automatically by the DBMS. The only legitimate reason of such a table is if it is an abstract table that is used to define common columns of subtables. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2022-10-21 10:16 | MIT License | |
| 244 | Base tables where all the unique columns are optional | Find the base tables where all the unique columns are optional. In such tables there can be rows without values that identify these rows. In this case there can be rows in the table where the values that should identify the row are missing. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2022-10-21 01:47 | MIT License | |
| 245 | Base tables where uniqueness is achieved by using only unique indexes | Find base tables where uniqueness is achieved by using only unique indexes, i.e., there is at least one unique index but no uniqueness constraints (PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE, EXCLUDE) | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2022-10-21 01:54 | MIT License | |
| 246 | Base tables, which statistics is probably not up to date | Find base tables where statistics has not been collected at all or it has been lastly collected more than 40 days ago. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 247 | BOOLEAN base table and foreign table columns with a CHECK constraint that involves olnly this column | Find base table and foreign table columns with the Boolean type that has a CHECK constraint that involves only this column. Avoid unnecessary CHECK constraints. The Boolean type contains only two values and there is nothing to check. By creating a check that determines that possible values in the column are TRUE and FALSE, one duplicates the attribute constraint (column has a type). This is a form of duplication. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:29 | MIT License | |
| 248 | BOOLEAN base table and foreign table columns with a PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE, or FOREIGN KEY constraint that involves olnly this column | Find base table columns with the Boolean type that has a PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE, or FOREIGN KEY constraint that involves only this column. Avoid unnecessary constraints. It is quite improbable that there must be such constraints. For instance, a table with PRIMARY KEY ( | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2022-11-03 10:46 | MIT License | |
| 249 | Candidate key columns that have a static default value | Find base table columns that are covered by a primary key or a unique constraint and that probably have a static default value. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-11-12 11:32 | MIT License | |
| 250 | Candidate keys where all columns have a static default value | Find base table primary key and unique constraints where all columns probably have a static default value. Candidate key columns (columns that belong to the primary key or to an unique constraints) shouldn't have static default values unless you are enforcing a rule that a table can have at most one row. The point of default values is that system assigns them automatically. There cannot be multiple rows with the same key value. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-11-12 11:33 | MIT License | |
| 251 | Cannot register all legal e-mail addresses | Find CHECK constraints on base table or foreign table columns that contain data about e-mail addresses and apply unnecessary restrictions to the these, rejecting potentially some legal addresses. More precisely, find CHECK constraints that prevent registration of e-mail addresses with multiple @ signs. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:29 | MIT License | |
| 252 | Cannot register all legal personal names | Find CHECK constraints on base table or foreign table columns that contain data about personal names and apply unnecessary restrictions to the names, rejecting potentially some legal names. Find checks that prohibit a digit or require a letter A-Z. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:29 | MIT License | |
| 253 | Case insensitive search | Refers to the column pg_proc.prokind and thus works starting from PostgreSQL 11. Find user-defined routines and derived tables (views/materialized views) that have a subquery with case insensitive search (by using the upper or lower function or ILIKE predicate or (?i) modifier of a regular expression pattern). | General | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-10-25 16:55 | MIT License | |
| 254 | Case sensitive and case insensitive uniqueness of the same simple key | Find sets of columns that have both case sensitive and case insesitive unique constraints enforced based on these columns. In case of textual columns uniqueness could be checked either in case sensitive or case insensitive way. It is a contradiction to check the uniqueneness in both ways in case of the same key. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:29 | MIT License | |
| 255 | Check as to wheteher the names of columns are in the plural or in the singular form (English version) | Check as to wheteher the names of table columns are in the plural or in the singular form. Make sure that you are consistent in naming. | General | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-03-20 13:18 | MIT License | |
| 256 | Check as to wheteher the names of columns are in the plural or in the singular form (English version) (aggregate view) | Check as to wheteher the names of table columns are in the plural or in the singular form. Make sure that you are consistent in naming. Show the number of columns that name is in plural or in singular by table type. | Sofware measure | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-03-20 13:19 | MIT License | |
| 257 | Check as to wheteher the names of columns are in the plural or in the singular form (Estonian version) | Check as to wheteher the names of tables are in the plural or in the singular form. Make sure that you are consistent in naming. | General | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-10-26 17:01 | MIT License | |
| 258 | Check as to wheteher the names of parameters are in the plural or in the singular form (English version) | Check as to wheteher the names of routine parameters are in the plural or in the singular form. Make sure that you are consistent in naming. | General | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-01-16 01:08 | MIT License | |
| 259 | Check as to wheteher the names of parameters are in the plural or in the singular form (Estonian version) | Check as to wheteher the names of routine parameters are in the plural or in the singular form. Make sure that you are consistent in naming. | General | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-11-15 16:53 | MIT License | |
| 260 | Check as to wheteher the names of tables are in the plural or in the singular form (English version) | Check as to wheteher the names of tables are in the plural or in the singular form. Make sure that you are consistent in naming. | General | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-01-16 01:09 | MIT License |