Advice? Yes -- find out which records in your table have the duplicate
combination of ACCTNO,PAYGRP and either delete the duplicate row, correct
the problem row or don't create a unique index
>From: "CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: How to create 2 unique indexes (Field1, Field2) and (Field1, Fiel
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:55:21 -0800
>
>Hi Gurus,
>
>How do I create 2 unique indexes (STDID,PAYGRP) and (ACCTNO,PAYGRP) on the
>same table ?
>
>I created the first index successfully but encountered the error
>"ORA-01452:
>cannot CREATE UNIQUE INDEX; duplicate keys found" when I tried to create
>the
>2nd index.
>
>SELECT INDEX_NAME,TABLE_NAME,UNIQUENESS FROM USER_INDEXES WHERE
>TABLE_NAME='SPY_ADHOC_PAYMENT'
>
>INDEX_NAME TABLE_NAME UNIQUENES
>------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------
>U_SPYADH_1 SPY_ADHOC_PAYMENT UNIQUE
>
>SQL> SELECT * FROM USER_IND_COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME='SPY_ADHOC_PAYMENT';
>
>INDEX_NAME TABLE_NAME COLUMN_NAME
>------------------------------ ------------------------------
>------------------------------
>U_SPYADH_1 SPY_ADHOC_PAYMENT STDID
>U_SPYADH_1 SPY_ADHOC_PAYMENT PAYGRP
>
>SQL> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX U_SPYADH_2 ON SPY_ADHOC_PAYMENT (ACCTNO,PAYGRP);
>CREATE UNIQUE INDEX U_SPYADH_2 ON SPY_ADHOC_PAYMENT (ACCTNO,PAYGRP)
> *
>ERROR at line 1:
>ORA-01452: cannot CREATE UNIQUE INDEX; duplicate keys found
>
>Any advice ? Thanks.
>
>Regds,
>New Bee
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