Re: unique key - primary key

2004-12-29 Thread Martijn Tonies
I have two tables, seemigly very similar setup; the primary key is the combination of two columns. With mysqldump, however, the table definition of the two tables looks different. Mysqldump on table 1 says ... UNIQUE KEY HONstid (HONstid,HONname) whereas on table 2

Re: unique key - primary key

2004-12-29 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello, RE: And columns in primary keys must be NOT NULL. Columns in unique keys can be NULL (if they are NOT NULL, then the unique key is functionally the same as a primary key). OK, thanks guys for the explanation. Then the result of mysqldump table definition part: UNIQUE KEY

unique key - primary key

2004-12-28 Thread Gaspar Bakos
Hi, I have two tables, seemigly very similar setup; the primary key is the combination of two columns. With mysqldump, however, the table definition of the two tables looks different. Mysqldump on table 1 says ... UNIQUE KEY HONstid (HONstid,HONname) whereas on table 2 it says ...

Re: unique key - primary key

2004-12-28 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hello, I have two tables, seemigly very similar setup; the primary key is the combination of two columns. With mysqldump, however, the table definition of the two tables looks different. Mysqldump on table 1 says ... UNIQUE KEY HONstid (HONstid,HONname) whereas on table 2 it says

Re: unique key - primary key

2004-12-28 Thread Paul DuBois
At 22:27 +0100 12/28/04, Martijn Tonies wrote: Hello, I have two tables, seemigly very similar setup; the primary key is the combination of two columns. With mysqldump, however, the table definition of the two tables looks different. Mysqldump on table 1 says ... UNIQUE KEY HONstid

Re: unique key - primary key

2004-12-28 Thread Gaspar Bakos
Hi, RE: And columns in primary keys must be NOT NULL. Columns in unique keys can be NULL (if they are NOT NULL, then the unique key is functionally the same as a primary key). OK, thanks guys for the explanation. Then the result of mysqldump table definition part: UNIQUE KEY HONstid