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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS
NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTEAD OF PRIMARY KEY
WHY CANT WE USE UNIQUE AND NOT NULL.THESE TWO ALSO DOESNT
ACCEPT NULL VALUES IN NOT NULL AND UNIQUE DOESNT ACCEPT
DUPLICATE VALUES?
SO WHAT IS THE DIFEERENCE BETWEEN(UNIQUE,NOT NULL) AND
PRIMARY KEY??????

Question Posted / shahid

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / upendra

Primary key creates Clustered Indexes. Clustered indexes physically sort the data.
Unique can have only Non-clustered indexes, where data are not physically sorted.

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / shahid

the above answer is wrong ...we can use foreign key for
unique key also...

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / aritra biswas

With the creation of primary key the oracle server
automatically creates and maintains a index on the primary
key column(s). Because of that index, the searching
processes on that table will be very fast where as
declaring a column as a (unique+not null) will not create
any index on that colum(s).It has to be created manually by
the DBA/users if we wish to enhance the searching process.

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / prativa mishra

We can create more unique key in a table but we can not create more then one primary key in a table.At the time of primary key creation thr is a clusterd index created automatically and it sorts data physically. It helps in searching process which not possible in unique+notnull column

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / joshy joy

1. Primary key creates Clustered Indexes and they are physically sort the data.
2. Oracle server automatically creates and maintains an index on the primary key and because of that searching will be very fast on that table.
3. Primary can be used for referential integrity when dealing with foreign key in child table

1. Unique can have only Non-clustered indexes, where data are not physically sorted.
2. unique key + not null will not create any index on that column(s)
3. Key column should be Primary key column in parent table when when dealing with foreign key

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / john

primary key will not allow null values.but in case of
unique,more than one null value s accepted.

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / banti

Both r same :)
Primary Key= (Unique + Not Null)

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IN A TABLE HAVE ONE COLUMN PRIMARY KEY..IT WILL NOT ALLOWS NULL VALUES AND DUPLICATE VALUES..INSTE..

Answer / gazulas

if it is Primary key then we can make use foreign key in other table and can use the referential integrity concept

for unique keys we dont have that.

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