PRIMARY KEY

Description

The PRIMARY KEY constraint uniquely identifies each record in a table.

Primary keys must contain UNIQUE values, and cannot contain NULL values.

A table can have only ONE primary key; and in the table, this primary key can consist of single column (field).

SQL PRIMARY KEY on CREATE TABLE

The following SQL creates a PRIMARY KEY on the “ID” column when the “Persons” table is created:

  1. > CREATE TABLE Persons (
  2. ID int NOT NULL,
  3. LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  4. FirstName varchar(255),
  5. Age int,
  6. PRIMARY KEY (ID)
  7. );

Constraints

  1. DROP PRIMARY KEY with ALTER TABLE is not supported yet.
  2. Composite primary key(the primary key consists of multiple columns) is not supported yet.