At 22:11 +0100 10/8/06, Deckard wrote:
>Hi,
>
>How do i dreate a table, let's say:
>
>CREATE TABLE wl_articles(wl_articles_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT
>PRIMARY KEY, title TEXT NOT NULL,
> main TEXT NOT NULL, extended TEXT NOT NULL, permalink
>VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, date DATE NOT NULL, ip VARCHAR(15), user_agent
>VARCHAR(50), status INTEGER NOT NULL,
> password VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL) TYPE=MyISAM;
>
>without allowing INSERTs to repeat rows based on certain fields, for
>example, "main" and "status" ?
Normally, you would do this by creating a UNIQUE index on the combination
of columns. (Or you could use a PRIMARY KEY if both columns are NOT NULL.)
However, you cannot do what you want in this case. Why? Because main is
a TEXT column, and TEXT columns allow a maximum of 255 initial characters
to be indexed. That means you cannot use a UNIQUE index to provide a
uniqueness constraint on anything from the 256th character on.
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Paul DuBois, MySQL Documentation Team
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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