When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I look at ...

Say we have two types of tools: hammers and wrenches. We have a list of work orders, and we want to track what tool was used for the hammering and what was used for the wrenching. The problem is that ...

I think the logic is too complicated for a CHECK constraint, and I haven't managed to get a user-defined function to work it that context so it may not be possible that way.