In a relational database approach, regardless of whether one is considering persisted data or transitory query results, almost everything is viewed as a logical table. Associations between these ...

Higher; Introducing databases Primary and foreign keys. Using flat file databases can lead to insertion, deletion and update anomalies. Use of relational databases where primary and foreign keys ...

Retaining an infinitude of Foreign Keys may cause future performance bottlenecks as transactional volume will get a performance hit by maintaining all those foreign keys and the indexes behind them.