Multi-Column Primary Key in MySQL 5
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I'm trying to learn how to use keys and to break the habit of necessarily having SERIAL
type IDs for all rows in all my tables. At the same time, I'm also doing many-to-many relationships, and so requiring unique values on either column of the tables that coordinate the relationships would hamper that.
How can I define a primary key on a table such that any given value can be repeated in any column, so long as the combination of values across all columns is never repeated exactly?
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