What is AI, PK, UQ when creating new column?

Reply to What is AI, PK, UQ when creating new column? on Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:29:40 GMT

Wassim — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:29:40 GMT

Is this a conspiracy?

Reply to What is AI, PK, UQ when creating new column? on Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:28:22 GMT

Daniel Mulroy — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:28:22 GMT

@ThomasD I also checked for tooltips before answering and didn't find them.

Reply to What is AI, PK, UQ when creating new column? on Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:32:08 GMT

ThomasD — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:32:08 GMT

@wassim Hm, that's odd, I checked for tool-tips twice, but now they appear

Reply to What is AI, PK, UQ when creating new column? on Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:27:45 GMT

Wassim — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:27:45 GMT

@Daniel-Mulroy said in What is AI, PK, UQ when creating new column?:

to have these as tooltips.

Actually I wanted to add the tooltips, and.. they are already here if you put your cursor on AI, PK or UQ..

Reply to What is AI, PK, UQ when creating new column? on Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:28:04 GMT

Daniel Mulroy — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:28:04 GMT

Hello Thomas!

These are SQL parameters.

AI: Auto Increments the field on each new insertion
PK: Primary Key - this is the field that will be used when doing joins (like linked fields)
UQ: Unique - the SQL operation will fail it would cause two rows to have the same value in this column. This is best used for things like social security numbers, customer id numbers, and other things that are VERY IMPORTANT never to have conflict or duplicated.

Hope this helps!

@Wassim-Samad or @Joseph-Benguira, it'd be really nice to have these as tooltips.