Vishak, Terry,
Also, an advantage of a Unique Constraint is that a Foreign Key can
reference a Unique Key, but not a Unique Index.
Jack
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According to Oracle, they will be de-supporting the unique index in the
future. Since the unique constraint creates an index anyway, might as well
go
with the unique constraint.
Terry
Vishak wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> I would like to know whether creating an unique-index on a column or a
> unique constraint on a column(during creation of the table) would be fine.
>
> Which option would be better?
>
> TIA
> Regards
> Vishak
>
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