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Re: Unique Index or Constraint??

From: Terry Ball <terry_ball_at_csgsystems.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 08:00:14 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00317C2F.20010601070524@fatcity.com>

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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