Chapter 10. Constraints
As a programmer, you create database constraints so that garbage won't go in, and therefore less garbage will come out—you hope. Is garbage-free data itself an optimization? Can it give the optimizer and the user better information to help in evaluating SELECTs? Or will the constant error testing hinder INSERTs, UPDATEs, and DELETEs? In this chapter, we'll address the good and bad effects of constraints on optimization.
Portability
MySQL does not support triggers or constraints (unless they're implicit NOT NULL constraints or explicit PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints). The gains shown throughout this chapter are for only seven DBMSs unless the test specifically uses only those three constraint types.
NOT NULL
The NULL “value” ...
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