Cascading referential integrity constraints are foreign key constraints that tell SQL Server to perform certain actions when a primary key field in a primary key-foreign key relationship is ...

When working on a multidimensional design, every fact table within scope should be handled with care. In an ideal world, each low-level fact table represents the metrics related to a business event.

But what if the primary key for your table has two (or more) columns? It's not enough just to flag the columns using Key -- you also have to specify the order of the columns in the key. You'll need to ...