[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: DB is not enforcing index uniqueness

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Marian, don’t keep calling it a bug just because you’re used to a different implementation from other RDBMS’es or just don’t like it! As the Dr. said, you can get your behavior by combining mandatory with a unique index. “ how do you find the (right) incomplete record later on to make it complete?” Are you lacking the creativity to think about use cases where a record has actually two unique indexes? One on a GUID (mandatory, always assigned to a known value). And another value, meaningful to humans, that must be unique when it’s known but multiple unknowns are possible – for what ever reason.

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