Question

I have a table:

table votes (     id,     user,     email,     address,     primary key(id), ); 

How can I make the columns user, email, address unique – i.e., ensure that there isn’t any pair of rows that has identical values for all three columns?

Answer 1

To add a unique constraint, you need to use two components:

ALTER TABLE – to change the table schema and,

ADD UNIQUE – to add the unique constraint.

You then can define your new unique key with the format 'name'('column1', 'column2'...)

So for your particular issue, you could use this command:

ALTER TABLE `votes` ADD UNIQUE `unique_index`(`user`, `email`, `address`);