From: "Jan Gelbrich" <j_gelbrich@westfalen-blatt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: constraint question
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:54:35 +0200
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"eugene kim" <eugene1977@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> thanks for helps..
>
> but then
> is it a good idea to have unique constraint for all columns for each table
>
It just depends how You want to design the data model.
An all-column unique constraint would only be necessary if You really want
_all combinations_ to be unique.
Is this the case ?

Jan



