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Unique but not unique
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21/08/2008 13:30:05
 
 
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21/08/2008 10:23:06
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01340637
Message ID:
01340851
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>>How would you insure that the entries in a given field are unique OR blank? That is, multiple blank records are OK but if data is entered, it must be a unique value. Setting up a candidate index doesn't work due to the blank fields.
>
>SELECT cField, CNT(*) AS nCnt ;
> FROM YourTable ;
> WHERE NOT EMPTY(cField) ;
> GROUP BY cField ;
> HAVING nCnt > 1 ;
> INTO CURSOR Dups
>
>This gives you a list of duplicate values.
>
>Tamar

Thanks Tamar. This would find duplicates if there are any, but how would you prevent them in the first place? I'm thinking some kind of code in both update and insert triggers might be the way to go, but I'm not really sure.
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