Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements
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Answer Posted / david alexander
There is some confusion here. Yes, UNIQUE is a constraint,
but the question is not about constraints, its about a
select statement. And, to answer it quite simply, its a
trick question. There is no difference. Although I always
see it as DISTINCT. Here is the quote from Oracle® Database
SQL Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2):
"Specify DISTINCT or UNIQUE if you want the database to
return only one copy of each set of duplicate rows
selected. These two keywords are synonymous. Duplicate rows
are those with matching values for each expression in the
select list."
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