Method for referential constraint enforcement in a database mana

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A method is disclosed for enforcing referential constraints on a record-by-record basis, immediately before or after each record is manipulated and while the record is still accessed, significantly improving the system's performance. Each record is visited only once to do both the constraint checking and the manipulation (insert/update/delete). If the constraint checking fails, then the entire relational operation of which the record manipulation is a part is backed out. For insertions, each record is first inserted 30, and then constraints respective the record are enforced 32,34. For updates, the record is updated 48 after constraints respecting the record's primary key are enforced 40,42, and before constraints respecting its foreign key(s) are enforced 44,46. Deletions are performed 52 before the constraints on the deleted record are enforced 54,56. Cascade deleted 58 are handled recursively 60. The method correctly processes cyclic constraints and self-referencing rows without special handling.

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