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Cannot Insert Duplicate Key Row In Object 'dbo.lastlogin' With Unique Index 'IX_lastlogin'.


Hi.

I have been recently redesigning my tables - creating FK
relationships from child tables to the PK userid in the Users table.
The specifics of what I did and why can be seen here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1968856&SiteID=1

But, now I am getting the below error:

Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.lastlogin' with unique index 'IX_lastlogin'.
The statement has been terminated.

Or, for that matter, SavedSearches or any other table where I need to
insert the same userid twice. I can see why I would want to avoid duplicates in the Users table. But, for lastlogin, savedsearches, and
a few of my other tables, the same user may account for multiple rows.

Any suggestions as to where I messed up and how to deal with this?

Thanks.


DBO.USERS






Code Snippet

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[users](
    [userid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [lastname] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [firstname] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [email] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [alternateemail] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [password] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [role] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
    [securityquestion] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [securityanswer] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [zipcode] [int] NOT NULL,
    [birthmonth] [tinyint] NOT NULL,
    [birthday] [tinyint] NOT NULL,
    [birthyear] [int] NOT NULL,
    [gender] [varchar](10) NULL,
    [city] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [state] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [country] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [registerdate] [datetime] NOT NULL,
    [editdate] [datetime] NULL,
    [confirmed] [bit] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__Users__confirmed__4CC05EF3]  DEFAULT ((0)),
 CONSTRAINT [PK_users] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [userid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY],
 CONSTRAINT [IX_email] UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED
(
    [email] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF


/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[lastlogin]    Script Date: 08/22/2007 14:16:16 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON


DBO.SAVEDSEARCHES


CREATE TABLE [dbo].[savedsearches](
    [savedsearchesid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [searchname] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [userid] [int] NOT NULL,
    [date] [datetime] NULL,
    [isdefault] [bit] NULL,
    [gender] [char](10) NULL,
    [startyear] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [endyear] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [country] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [miles] [int] NULL,
    [pictures] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [postal] [int] NULL,
    [sort] [tinyint] NULL,
    [photostring] [varchar](50) NULL,
    [orderby] [tinyint] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_SavedSearches] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [userid] ASC,
    [searchname] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[savedsearches]  WITH NOCHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_savedsearches_users] FOREIGN KEY([userid])
REFERENCES [dbo].[users] ([userid])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[savedsearches] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_savedsearches_users]
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO




The following insert statement returned the error in the subject because userid = 32 already exists in the Users table.

INSERT INTO lastlogin
VALUES (32, CONVERT(VARCHAR(26), GETDATE(), 109), 1, CONVERT(VARCHAR(26), GETDATE(), 109))

DBO.LASTLOGIN





Code Snippet


CREATE TABLE [dbo].[lastlogin](
    [lastloginid] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [userid] [int] NOT NULL,
    [date] [datetime] NOT NULL,
    [status] [bit] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_lastlogin_status]  DEFAULT ((0)),
    [activity] [datetime] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_lastlogin_activity]  DEFAULT (getutcdate()),
    [online]  AS (case when [status]=(1) AND datediff(minute,[activity],getutcdate())<(30) then (1) else (0) end),
 CONSTRAINT [PK_lastlogin] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
    [date] ASC,
    [userid] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[lastlogin]  WITH NOCHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_lastlogin_users] FOREIGN KEY([userid])
REFERENCES [dbo].[users] ([userid])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[lastlogin] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_lastlogin_users]




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Is there a simple way to find properties of an index for a table?  Specifically I am looking for the unique property.  I currently have code to to do this, however I feel like there must be some easier way. 
 
I am using .net 2005 and SQL 2005 coding in c#.  Thanks for any help!



Code Snippet
 
_conn.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("sp_helpindex", _conn);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@objname", "TABLENAME"));
SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
da.Fill(results);
 

foreach (DataRow row in results.Tables[0].Rows)

{


ArrayList names = new ArrayList();

DataTable dtUnique = new DataTable();

SqlCommand cmd2 = this._conn.CreateCommand();

cmd2.CommandText = String.Format("SELECT INDEXPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('TABLENAME'), 'INDEXNAME', 'IsUnique') AS isUnique");

dtUnique.Load(cmd2.ExecuteReader());
 

bool unique = Convert.ToBoolean(dtUnique.Rows[0]["isUnique"]);

if (unique)


names.Add(tableName);

}

_conn.Close();
 

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Thanks for your thoughts

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Unique Index In Sql Server
What is unique index in sql server 2k?
plz some one help me out, thanx

Rahul Arora
07 Batch
NCCE Israna,


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IMPOSSIBLE = I+M+POSSIBLE

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Msg 2714, Duplicate Object Error
 

Existing database (upgrade to SS2k5) has four tables with same primary key columns (UserID).
 
Using CREATE TABLE with a specified [databasename].[dbo].[table1] schema is giving the following error message:
 



Msg 2714, Level 16, State 4, Line 12

There is already an object named 'UserID' in the database.

Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 12

Could not create constraint. See previous errors.

 
I have duplicated the error with the following script:
 

USE [testing]

IF OBJECT_ID ('[testing].[dbo].[users1]', 'U') IS NOT NULL

DROP TABLE [testing].[dbo].[users1]

CREATE TABLE [testing].[dbo].[users1] (

[UserID] bigint NOT NULL,

[Name] nvarchar(25) NULL,

CONSTRAINT [UserID] PRIMARY KEY (UserID)

)

IF OBJECT_ID ('[testing].[dbo].[users2]', 'U') IS NOT NULL

DROP TABLE [testing].[dbo].[users2]

CREATE TABLE [testing].[dbo].[users2] (

[UserID] bigint NOT NULL,

[Name] nvarchar(25) NULL,

CONSTRAINT [UserID] PRIMARY KEY (UserID)

)

IF OBJECT_ID ('[testing].[dbo].[users3]', 'U') IS NOT NULL

DROP TABLE [testing].[dbo].[users3]

CREATE TABLE [testing].[dbo].[users3] (

[UserID] bigint NOT NULL,

[Name] nvarchar(25) NULL,

CONSTRAINT [UserID] PRIMARY KEY (UserID)

)

 

I have searched the "2714 duplicate error msg," but have found references to duplicate table names, rather than multiple field names or column name duplicate errors within a database.
 
I think that the schema is only allowing a single UserID primary key.
 
How do I fix this?
 
TIA

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Does anybody know the significance of 3 in the following error message?

"CREATE UNIQUE INDEX terminated because a duplicate key was found for index ID 3. "

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my table :

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[users] (
[ID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[A1] [nvarchar] (100) NULL ,
[A2] [nvarchar] (100) NULL ,
[A3] [nvarchar] (100) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

i must keep ID columns as primary key

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[users] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_users] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[ID]
) ON [PRIMARY]


but now A1+A2 must be unique

how can i do it ?

thank you

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Hi,
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Hassan

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in SQL Server?

how can i create a unique index that ignores null values?

Thanks in advance.

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