Ensure Table has only one row

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harsha.majety

Posted Thursday, December 08, 2011 12:30 AM

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Stephen_W_Dodd

Posted Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:16 AM

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Sometimes I want to keep a "history" of the different settings, or have more than one set depending on circumstances. In these cases, I use a "current" column (bit) to determine which row I should be using. Just for info.

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Eric M Russell

Posted Thursday, December 08, 2011 1:39 PM

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An alternate method to insure only one row (or 2, 3, ... rows) would be to simply define a unique key and check constraint on the table's ID column.

create table tempdb..foo
(
   foo_id int not null primary key check (foo_id = 1)
);

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