Enforcing Referential Integrity Across SQL Server Databases
Learn how to control referential integrity from parent table for tables that reside in different SQL Server databases on the same server.
Learn how to control referential integrity for database tables and data.
Learn how to control referential integrity from parent table for tables that reside in different SQL Server databases on the same server.
Learn a way to build referential integrity for tables that reside in different SQL Server databases on the same server.
In this tip we cover how you can implement SQL Server cross database referential integrity using triggers.
Usually referential integrity is implemented by using foreign key constraints, however there can be situations when it is not possible to create a foreign key constraint. Read this tip to learn about other options.

In this article, we look when and how to use SQL foreign keys vs SQL triggers for referential integrity when working with SQL Server.