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I am using SQL Server 2005. I want to constrain the values in a column to be unique, while allowing NULLS.
My current solution involves a unique index on a view like so:
CREATE VIEW vw_unq WITH SCHEMABINDING AS SELECT Column1 FROM MyTable WHERE Column1 IS NOT NULL CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX unq_idx ON vw_unq (Column1) Any better ideas?
Pretty sure you can’t do that, as it violates the purpose of uniques.
However, this person seems to have a decent work around: http://sqlservercodebook.blogspot.com/2008/04/multiple-null-values-in-unique-index-in.html