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What needs to consider when adding a password to the table

  • March 14, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    #394396

    Hi There,

    Could you please help me out, i have table with 9 columns and about a million rows,

    i need to add primary key, so what things do i need to consider here,

    what if my table has no unique column / columns(composite), wat can do in this situation

    adding a id field (just 1 to .... so on) and then making this pk, does makes any sense?

    could you please help me out here

    Thanks a ton in advance

    dhani

  • March 14, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    #1597274

    Yes if there is no natural key you should add something like an identity column and make that your primary key.

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  • March 14, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    #1597288

    Thank you Sean Lange

    so by adding like this does help any way data retrival,

    also one more doubt is, in this table (where i want to add primary key),

    in the procedue (runs daily) loads data to the above table (several updates/deletes/inserts to this table)

    does having pk at table level will be help full? or in the proc itself first remove pk then do several actions (DML) then add pk at end does better?

    which one do you suggest

    please help me...

    thanks

    dhanvi

  • March 14, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    #1597333

    asita (3/14/2013)

    Thank you Sean Lange

    so by adding like this does help any way data retrival,

    also one more doubt is, in this table (where i want to add primary key),

    in the procedue (runs daily) loads data to the above table (several updates/deletes/inserts to this table)

    does having pk at table level will be help full? or in the proc itself first remove pk then do several actions (DML) then add pk at end does better?

    which one do you suggest

    please help me...

    thanks

    dhanvi

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  • March 14, 2013 at 11:31 pm

    #1597349

    hi jeff,

    thank you,

    the criteria is mainly on account number, which is part of or primary key,

    please suggest to have pk at table level rather every time remove pk before proc executes then add it at the end of proc execution?

    thank you

    dhanvi

  • March 15, 2013 at 6:07 am

    #1597455

    please suggest to have pk at table level

    I guess you have no choice here. PK can only be set "at table level"

    ...every time remove pk before proc executes then add it at the end of proc execution?

    That would be worse possible design. PK shouldn't be dropped and recreated in order to run any stored proc (eg. the one which populates table.)

    If you worry about data which potentially will not load due to duplicate values in the PK column, use staging table where it's not PK, validate and then load only valid data into your final destination table.

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