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Primary Key VS Unique Key In Database.

Umasankar Natarajan
14/06/2017 0 0
PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE KEY
Primary key is a set of one or more fields/columns of a table that uniquely identify a record in database table. Primary keys must contain unique values. Unique-key is to prevent duplicate values in a column. prevents two records from having identical values in a column.
There will be only one PRIMARY KEY per table. There may be more that one UNIQUE KEY per table.
Should not have a NULL value. Can have a NULL value.
Unique key identifier of the record. May not be unique.
By default, creates clustered index. Creates non-clustered index.
Values can’t change or delete. Values can change or delete.
Can be made into a foreign key into another table. Can not be made into a foreign key into another table.

 

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