Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements
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Answer Posted / pravin d. survase
UNIQUE is only used in oracle but,
DISTINCT is used in all RDBMS.
UNIQUE is used in SELECT statement and as KEY also.
DISTINCT is only used in SELECT.
DISTINCT KEY concept is not present in SQL/ORACLE.
UNIQUE also supress the duplicates but, UNIQUE KEY will
allow the duplicates.
DISTINCT supress the duplicates.
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