Primary key VS Unique key in SQL Server

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Which key will actively participate in referential integrity

Poll closed Mar 17, 2008.
  1. Unique key

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  2. Primary key

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  3. Candidate key

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  1. venkatesanj@hcl.in

    venkatesanj@hcl.in New Member

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    Unique Key constraints:

    Unique key constraint will provide you a constraint like the column values should retain uniqueness.
    It will allow null value in the column.
    It will create non-clustered index by default
    Any number of unique constraints can be added to a table.


    Code:
    CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEETABLE
    	(EMPID INT ,
             IDVAL INT NOT NULL,  
    	 FIRSTNAME VARCHAR(30) ,
    	 LASTNAME VARCHAR(30) ,
    	 CITY VARCHAR(30),
    	 JOININGDATE DATETIME)
    I have created a table EmployeeTable and i am trying add a unique constriant on the column IDVAL.

    Code:
     ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEETABLE
     ADD CONSTRAINT UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT 
     UNIQUE (IDVAL)

    Primary Key:
    Primary key will create column data uniqueness in the table.
    Primary key will create clustered index by default
    Only one Primay key can be created for a table
    Multiple columns can be consolidated to form a single primary key
    It wont allow null values.


    Code:
     ALTER TABLE EMPLOYEETABLE
     ADD CONSTRAINT KEY_CONSTRAINT 
     PRIMARY KEY (IDVAL)
    Please provide me your valuable feedback regarding this article.

    Regards,
    Venkatesan Prabu . J
     
    Last edited: Mar 12, 2008

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