I’m going to running thousands of queries into SQL and I need to prevent the duplication of field ‘domain’. Never had to do this before and any help would be appreciated.
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I’m going to running thousands of queries into SQL and I need to prevent the duplication of field ‘domain’. Never had to do this before and any help would be appreciated.
You probably want to create a ‘UNIQUE’ constraint on the field ‘Domain’ – this constraint will raise an error if you create two rows that have the same domain in the database. For an explanation, see this tutorial in W3C school –
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_unique.asp
If this doesn’t solve your problem, please clarify the database you have chosen to use (MySql?).
NOTE: This constraint is completely separate from your choice of PHP as a programming language, it is a SQL database definition thing. A huge advantage of expressing this constraint in SQL is that you can trust the database to preserve the constraint even when people import / export data from the database, your application is buggy or another application shares the database.