Tag: Unique Key

How to Define a UNIQUE Key in Vertabelo

Martyna Sławińska

Martyna is a software developer with a passion for programming, automation, and innovation. Currently working for the global corporate IT consulting sector, she is a new-generation techie who hails from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. She has certifications in both database administration and Java development. Her interests include creating small automation devices using embedded systems and various electronic components. In her free time, she practices yoga, which helps her to center her thoughts and come up with new ideas.
Among the many database constraints available to us, the UNIQUE key constraint ensures the uniqueness of data in a column or a set of columns. Read on to find out more about the UNIQUE key constraint and how to define it in Vertabelo. In this article, we’ll focus on the UNIQUE key constraint. We’ll start with its basic definition and usage and gradually build up to more advanced options. Also, we’ll jump into Vertabelo and create an ER diagram that uses the UNIQUE key constraint.

Tip #4 – How to Make a Column Unique

Vertabelo Team
Sometimes there are columns in a table that don’t belong to primary key, but are still unique. To mark them as a unique, you have to create an alternate (unique) key containing it. Single-column alternate (unique) key Select the table with the column you want to make a unique. Then, click the Alternate (unique) key tab in the Table properties panel on the right: Click Add key:

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