Disclaims:
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- There cannot be other paths into the database that subvert data integrity; in other words, you can't get in the 'back door' and change the data in such a manner ad data integrity is violated
- The DBMS must prevent data from being modified by machine language intervention
- Data in a relational database can be stored centrally or distributed
- Data from tables on different servers (distributed queries) and from other relational database (heterogeneous queries) can be join by user
- Data integrity must be maintained regardless of the number of copies of data and where it resides