Summary

In this lesson, you learned how to use some advanced SQL features. Constraints are an important part of enforcing referential integrity; indexes can improve data retrieval performance; triggers can be used to perform pre- or post-execution processing; and security options can be used to manage data access. Your own DBMS probably offers some form of these features. Refer to your DBMS documentation for more details.

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