Question

I have a table which stores a category mix for customers. The number of categories may change, but the breakdown must always be less than or equal to 100% for each customer.

custom     type_      pct  
-------    -------   -----  
Cust1      Type A    .33  
Cust1      Type B    .17  
Cust1      Type C    .50  
Cust2      Type A    .30  
Cust2      Type D    .10  
Cust2      Type E    .10  
Cust2      Type F    .50  

Any ideas on how I can add a check constraint to enforce this rule?
Here’s my start…

ALTER TABLE cust_mix ADD CONSTRAINT ttl_pct_mix CHECK (SUM (pct) <= 1);  

But this checks all rows, regardless of the customer ID

Answer 1

You won’t be able to achieve this just by adding a constraint. You will need a trigger after insert/update to check this on the database side.