At 15:00 -0500 2/22/05, Gustafson, Tim wrote:
Hi there!
I have a table, defined as follows:
CREATE TABLE `WebSiteDomainNames` (
`ID` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`WebSite` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`DomainName` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`Alias` char(16) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`),
UNIQUE KEY `DomainName` (`DomainName`,`Alias`),
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
The way I read this definition, it should be impossible for someone to
put in two rows with the same DomainName and Alias, however, right now I
have the following rows in the table:
+-----+---------+------------+-------+
| ID | WebSite | DomainName | Alias |
+-----+---------+------------+-------+
| 543 | 1086 | 1334 | NULL |
| 545 | 1086 | 1334 | NULL |
| 509 | 1086 | 1334 | * |
+-----+---------+------------+-------+
And I can insert even more NULL rows if I want to. Shouldn't the UNIQUE
key prevent this from happening?
Not for NULL values, no. See the description for UNIQUE indexes here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/create-table.html
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