Frequently Asked Questions on Unique Constraint

What is a unique constraint in SQL?

A UNIQUE constraint ensures that all values in a column are unique. UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints provide uniqueness guarantees for a column or set of columns. PRIMARY KEY constraints automatically have UNIQUE constraints.



SQL | UNIQUE Constraint

SQL Constraints Unique constraints in SQL is used to check whether the sub-query has duplicate tuples in its result. It returns a boolean value indicating the presence/absence of duplicate tuples. Unique constraint returns true only if the subquery has no duplicate tuples, else it returns false.

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Evaluates to true on an empty subquery. Returns true only if there are unique tuples present as the output of the sub-query (two tuples are unique if the value of any attribute of the two tuples differs). Returns true if the sub-query has two duplicate rows with at least one attribute as NULL....

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