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I'm sorry, I bet you get asked this ten times a day but I can't find the answer, In Access, you can make a field have a requirement for a unique entry, BUT it allows as many Nulls as you want (i.e. only check for Uniqueness if there is an entry).
How do you mimic this behaviour in SQL Server?

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Hello !

for MS SQL 2000
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Hi All,

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);
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In Oracle DB, unique columns are behaved a little different where multiple nulls are allowed in a unique column.

I know there are some tircks that you can do to allow multiple nulls in unique column in sql server(well, pretend to be) like creating a computed column, create a view and an index...

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set ansi_nulls off


go

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@inlanguageid INT,

@inFileVersion VARCHAR (100),

@ExeState int

set @inFileName = 'A0006337.EXE'

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set @Id= 1

set @inlanguageid =null

set @inFileVersion =NULL

set @ExeState =0

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AND DR.FileSize =@inFileSize

AND DR.FileVersion = isnull(@inFileVersion,DR.FileVersion)

AND DR.languageid = isnull(@inlanguageid,null)

AND DR.[ID]= @ID

)

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Msg 2601, Level 14, State 1, Procedure DFP_report_load, Line 161
Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.DFP_Reports_History' with unique index 'ix_report_history_creative_id'.

The duplicate key value is (40736326382, 1, 2015-07-03, 67618862, 355324).
Msg 3621, Level 0, State 0, Procedure DFP_report_load, Line 161

The statement has been terminated.

Exception in Task: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.DFP_Reports_History' with unique index 'ix_report_history_creative_id'. The duplicate key value is (40736326382, 1, 2015-07-03, 67618862, 355324).

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Here is the code



Code Snippet
create procedure SearchPartKeyword
(
@Keyword varchar(250) = null,
@Universal_Id varchar(10) = null
)
as
select p.PartNumber, p.Description, p.ServiceOrderable, n.MyNotes, p.LargestAssembly, p.DMM,
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from Parts p inner join notes n on p.PartNumber = n.Identifier
where n.Universal_ID = @Universal_ID and p.Description like @Keyword
union
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from Parts p
where p.Description like @Keyword





and the results:
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Here is the table I created:

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(
[recId]
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insert into Test (code, prime) values ('BUS', cast(0 as bit))
insert into Test (code, prime) values ('BUS', cast(0 as bit))
insert into Test (code, prime) values ('CAR', cast(1 as bit))
insert into Test (code, prime) values ('CAR', cast(0 as bit))
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insert into Test (code, prime) values ('RLW', cast(0 as bit))

select *
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I need to create a constraint on this table that will not allow me to have two rows that are prime for the same code. So the following insert statement should fail:

-- This should fail
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Server Error in '/' Application.


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Line 90: sContact.Email = sEmail.Text.Trim
Line 91: sContact.Save()
Line 92:
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