Differences between UNIQUE and DISTINCT in select statements
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Answer Posted / qman*
The two keywords are only synonymous in regards to a SELECT
statement, and also ONLY in an Oracle environment. DISTINCT
is an ANSI standard where as UNIQUE can only be used this
way in Oracle. To further the differences between the two,
UNIQUE may also be used in a table creation statement to
specify that inputs into the specified column cannot share
the same value, and if attempted will result in a
constraint violation error, I hope this clears things up.
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