Hello everyone, in this little post we will review a new feature in MySQL 8.

What is “CHECK Constraint”?

This is a new feature to specify a condition to check the value before INSERT or UPDATE into a row. The constraint could return an error if the result of a search condition is FALSE for any row of the table (but not if the result is UNKNOWN or TRUE).

This feature starts working on MySQL 8.0.16, and in previous versions, we could create it, but it doesn’t work, meaning the syntax is supported but it is not working,

There are some rules to keep in mind…

– AUTO_INCREMENT columns are not permitted
– Refer to another column in another table is not permitted
– Stored functions and user-defined functions are not permitted (you can not call a function or any user-defined functions)
– Stored procedure and function parameters are not permitted (you cannot call …

Our database tools team is pleased to announce the release of our dbForge MySQL products with a CHECK constraint support. We are looking forward to seeing our customers benefit from it in their everyday work. The fact that MySQL doesn’t support CHECK Constraints syntax caused lots of inconveniences to the developers and DBAs. That deviation […]