How to manage primary key while updating [migrated]

Posted by Subin Jacob on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Subin Jacob
Published on 2013-10-25T13:30:39Z Indexed on 2013/10/25 16:10 UTC
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In the following table primaryKeyColumn is primary key. To maintain the data history I always uses the values with WHERE condition(WHERE StatusColumn=1) And will set the StatusColumn to 0 if the data is edited (So that I could keep the previous data).

But the problem is, if I update it to 0 , I can't insert the same key to primarykeycolumn since the column validated for primary keys. How can I manage these kind of validations? what the mistake I did in this design?

primaryKeyColumn     ValueColumn  StatusColumn
----------------     -----------  ------------

     2                   Name1         1
     3                   Name2         1
     4                   Name3         0

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