C Generate Db Primary Key

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C Generate Db Primary Key Examples

A column or columns is called primary key (PK) that uniquely identifies each row in the table. If you want to create a primary key, you should define a PRIMARY KEY constraint when you create or modify a table. When multiple columns are used as a primary key, it is known as composite primary key.

APPLIES TO: SQL Server 2016 and later Azure SQL Database Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL DW) Parallel Data Warehouse

You can define a primary key in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. Creating a primary key automatically creates a corresponding unique clustered index, or a nonclustered index if specified as such.

Before You Begin

Limitations and Restrictions

A table can contain only one PRIMARY KEY constraint.
All columns defined within a PRIMARY KEY constraint must be defined as NOT NULL. If nullability is not specified, all columns participating in a PRIMARY KEY constraint have their nullability set to NOT NULL.

Security

Permissions

Creating a new table with a primary key requires CREATE TABLE permission in the database and ALTER permission on the schema in which the table is being created.

Creating a primary key in an existing table requires ALTER permission on the table.

Using SQL Server Management Studio

To create a primary key

In Object Explorer, right-click the table to which you want to add a unique constraint, and click Design.
In Table Designer, click the row selector for the database column you want to define as the primary key. If you want to select multiple columns, hold down the CTRL key while you click the row selectors for the other columns.
Right-click the row selector for the column and select Set Primary Key.

Caution

If you want to redefine the primary key, any relationships to the existing primary key must be deleted before the new primary key can be created. A message will warn you that existing relationships will be automatically deleted as part of this process.

A primary key column is identified by a primary key symbol in its row selector.

If a primary key consists of more than one column, duplicate values are allowed in one column, but each combination of values from all the columns in the primary key must be unique.

If you define a compound key, the order of columns in the primary key matches the order of columns as shown in the table. However, you can change the order of columns after the primary key is created. For more information, see Modify Primary Keys.

Using Transact-SQL

To create a primary key in an existing table

The following example creates a primary key on the column TransactionID in the AdventureWorks database.

To create a primary key in a new table

The following example creates a table and defines a primary key on the column TransactionID in the AdventureWorks database.

To create a primary key with clustered index in a new table

The following example creates a table and defines a primary key on the column CustomerID and a clustered index on TransactionID in the AdventureWorks database.

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SQLite Interfaces

SQLite Useful Resources

Selected Reading

A primary key is a field in a table which uniquely identifies the each rows/records in a database table. Primary keys must contain unique values. A primary key column cannot have NULL values.

A table can have only one primary key, which may consist of single or multiple fields. When multiple fields are used as a primary key, they are called a composite key.

If a table has a primary key defined on any field(s), then you cannot have two records having the same value of that field(s).

Note: You would use these concepts while creating database tables.

Create Primary Key

Here is the syntax to define ID attribute as a primary key in a COMPANY table.