I have a table:
table votes (
id,
user,
email,
address,
primary key(id),
);
How can I make the columns user, email, address unique - i.e., ensure that there isn't any pair of rows that has identical values for all three columns?
To add a unique constraint, you need to use two components:
ALTER TABLE
- to change the table schema and,
ADD UNIQUE
- to add the unique constraint.
You then can define your new unique key with the format 'name'('column1', 'column2'...)
So for your particular issue, you could use this command:
ALTER TABLE `votes` ADD UNIQUE `unique_index`(`user`, `email`, `address`);