When creating an entity Class to work with one of your tables in your Entity Framework model, you might find the Column attribute useful. For one purpose, it's a convenience: If you have a column ...

From the perspective of the primary key, it is good database design to forbid modifying primary keys. If a primary key value is updated, three options exist for handling foreign key values: (1) ...

The original intention of surrogate keys across multidimensional database designs was to help optimize joins by keeping all keys, used for joining between facts and dimensions, both numeric and single ...