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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

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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

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  1. In Object Explorer, right-click the table to which you want to add a unique constraint, and click Design.
  2. 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.
  3. Right-click the row selector for the column and select Set Primary Key.

Caution

Gacha life 2 download mac. 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.

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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.

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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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