Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/98 11:40

Bill Bob (nospam@devdex.com) writes:
> Each Voucher Table contains a VoucherDate and a VoucherTypeID and a
> VoucherNo. The VoucherNo must be unique for a vouchertype and within a
> financial year (1st April - 31st March).
>
> SQL Server cannot create a unique index with this criteria. Hence, I had
> to split the tables.

Of course it can! You would add Year as a column in the table, and the
primary key would be (Year, VoucherTypeID, VoucherNo).



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