Two different approaches have been traditionally considered for dealing with the process of integrity constraints
enforcement: integrity checking and integrity maintenance. However, while previous research in the first approach has
mainly addressed efficiency issues, research in the second approach has been mainly concentrated in being able to
generate all possible repairs that falsify an integrity constraint violation. In this paper we address efficiency issues during
the process of integrity maintenance. In this sense, we propose a technique which improves efficiency of existing methods
by defining the order in which maintenance of integrity constraints should be performed. Moreover, we use also this
technique for being able to handle in an integrated way the integrity constraintsPostprint (published version
