InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comThu, 20 Jun 2013 02:53:36 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic587537-359-1.aspxAnd please don't post in all caps. It's the online equivalent of shouting at someone. It's also hard to read.Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:09:27 GMTGilaMonsterhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic587537-359-1.aspxthis sounds very much like a homework assignment....aside from that...you want to do a few things....you said only three specific values.... as you suspected, read about CHECK CONTRAINTS in you books online.you might also want to make the column NOT NULL when you build the table, so it cannot be blasnk either.to force a column to be unique, you'll want to read about UNIQUE CONSTRAINTS in books online as well.the combination of those three should get you where you want to go.show us what you've built so far and we could offer some more insight.Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:56:44 GMTLowellhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic587537-359-1.aspxHELLO MY NAME IS GEORGE BEGINNER IN SQL MY QUESTION IS THAT ,I WANT TO CREATE A TABLE WITH ONE FIELD WHICH HAS TO INSERT ONLY THREE VALUES AFTER THAT FIELD INSERT THRE VALUES IT SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO INSERT MORE VALUES IN DETAIL IF MY TABLE NAME IS 'SOURCE' WHICH CONTAIN ONLY ONE FIELD, NAMED 'CATEGORY'OF TYPE VARCHAR I ONLY WANT TO ENTER THREE VALUES IN THIS AS 'LAND','AIR','WATER' I SHOULD BE ABLE TO INSERT ONLY THIS VALUES AND TEHRE SHOULD BE NO DUPLICATION OF THESE VALUES AND NO OTHER VALUES SHOULD BE INSERTED IS IT POSSIBLE USING CHECK CONSTRAINT . IF NOT USING STORED PROCEDURES I AM EXPECTING AN EARLY REPLYFri, 17 Oct 2008 05:40:17 GMTgeorgevarghese3