
Without primary keys, things can get really messy, really fast.
#Psequel cannot edit tables without primary key password#
Oh, and there're 39 unique passwords for "bob" (157 of the rows all show the password "password", of course).

And, if you've tried to connect rows in some other table to user without a primary key/foreign key relationship - every row in message marked as sent_by "bob" ties back to every one of those 300 user entries. What you do have is a user table with 300 separate entries for a user named "bob", many of which have different values in the other columns.

Unfortunately, for some reason there is a duplicated record which means that I can't create a primary key - and in a bit of a catch 22 I can't change or delete the record so that I create the key because there isn't a key (ad infinatum). The title says it all really - there's a table in a MySql DB that I want to be able to edit - so I try to assign a primary key. Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Tier List from the 2019 BFTG EVO. You cannot fully drop the PRIMARY KEY constraint on a table without replacing. It's true, without a primary key (or some unique key), you don't have an insertion anomaly if you go to insert the same data multiple times. Can't Edit Table Because there's no Primary Key, Can't Create Key Because there are Duplicate Values. You will need to disable the foreign key constraints, delete the primary key and then there will be no further relation with the second table. As Great Buildings cannot be stored, the only way to remove them from the city grid. You can change the primary key of an existing table with an ALTER TABLE. I would just add that if for some reason you cannot have a real primary key in your database table, but somehow there is such a set of columns that define a unique key for each row and that can be used for identity resolution, then you should be able to fake a primary key in the model by setting the IsPrimaryKey property on the corresponding columns on the designer. You will get the following list: TABLENAME - BuyingGroupsArchive CitiesArchive ColdRoomTemperaturesArchive. It makes it much easier to maintain the data. To see which tables have no primary key, run the following script: SELECT TABLENAME FROM INFORMATIONSCHEMA.TABLES EXCEPT SELECT TABLENAME FROM INFORMATIONSCHEMA.TABLECONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINTTYPE 'PRIMARY KEY'.

Should you create a database table without a primary key? No.Įvery table should have some column (or set of columns) that uniquely identifies one and only one row. And, I believe that holds true for almost every (if not every) major DBMS platform. Can you create a database table without a primary key? Well, you just said you can in SQLite.
