> I was faced with a similar issue.  One suggestion I got from the Internet 
> was to create a shadow column that contains the values used in the Index, 
> with a dummy entry (in my case, the string <NULL>) for those records in 
> which the primary column is NULL.  It works well for my app.

Michael,

thank you.
This is not working in my case. Uniquenes sis not sufficient: I need 
referential integrity with uniqueness. If I add <NULL> department, this must 
be added into department table also and pollutes this table.

Andrus. 



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