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Hi,

On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:26:34PM +1000, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> > What is the easiest way to address this problem with MySQL.
> I am working on a companies Radiator server that uses MySQL as its database
> server for accounting and there are many duplicate records.  In MS SQL it was
> easy as I could use a constraint that would prevent it from happening but it
is
> my understanding that MySQL does not have this functionality.  If I am wrong
> please right me and give me an example.  If I am right then how do you work
> around this problem?

I had the same problem... and the easiest solution I could find is
making the reporting software (which I wrote in PHP) check for duplicates
when generating a report. It's easy to recognize the duplicated records.

Ricardo.



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