Oracle 12c: SQL
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ISBN: 9781305251038
Author: Joan Casteel
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4, Problem 11MC
In the initial creation of a table, if a UNIQUE constraint is included for a composite column that requires the combination of entries in the specified columns to be unique, which of the following statements is correct?
- a. The constraint can be created only with the ALTER TABLE command.
- b. The constraint can be created only with the table-level approach.
- c. The constraint can be created only with the column-level approach.
- d. The constraint can be created only with the ALTER TABLE … MODIFY command.
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