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DB constraints can verify an important but inherently limited, simplified subset of data integrity.

For a crude example, it's trivial for DB constraints verify (via a foreign key constraint) that all your contracts belong to some customer, but very difficult for DB constraints to verify that all your currently active contracts belong to a currently active customer, even if the definition of 'active' is some relatively simple business logic.

So in my experience it's not that rare to have some code-based data integrity tests that run various sanity checks on production data to verify things that DB constraints can not.



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