| Goal | Find foreign key constraints that refer to a base table that has at least one subtable in the inheritance hierarchy. Rows of the subtable do not belong to the supertable in terms of checking the referential integrity. Let us assume that there is a table T with a subtable Tsub. Let us also assume that table B has a foreign key that refers to the table T. If a row is inserted into Tsub, then this row cannot be referenced from B. |
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| Type | Problem detection (Each row in the result could represent a flaw in the design) |
| Reliability | High (Few or no false-positive results) |
| License | MIT (opens in new tab) |
| Fixing Suggestion | Do not use table inheritance to associate T and Tsub. |
| Data Source | system catalog only |
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Collections
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Find problems automatically
Queries, that results point to problems in the database. Each query in the collection produces an initial assessment. However, a human reviewer has the final say as to whether there is a problem or not .
| Name | Description |
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| Find problems automatically | Queries, that results point to problems in the database. Each query in the collection produces an initial assessment. However, a human reviewer has the final say as to whether there is a problem or not . |
Categories
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Relationships between tables
Queries of this category provide information about how database tables are connected to each other and whether such connections have been explicitly defined and whether it has been done correctly.
Table inheritance
Queries of this category provide information about the inheritance between base tables.
| Name | Description |
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| Relationships between tables | Queries of this category provide information about how database tables are connected to each other and whether such connections have been explicitly defined and whether it has been done correctly. |
| Table inheritance | Queries of this category provide information about the inheritance between base tables. |
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