I have a table named BILLOFMATERIAL which consists of three fields:
PITEM CHAR(15) /* parent item */
CITEM CHAR(15) /* child item */
QTYPER NUMERIC(5,2) /* qty per child item used by parent item */

I would like to have unique combinations of PITEM & CITEM, example:

PITEM,CITEM,QTYPER
A,B,10
A,C,10
A,D,10
A,E,5

If the user tries to add another record with
A,C,10 or
A,B,10
The table should refuse the entry.
Is it possible to somehow encode this with the table structure.

Thanks in advance for any help

Cheers

Trajano Roberto

you can create a 'UNIQUE CONSTRAINT'.

If you're using InterBase Workbench, go to the Constraint Editor, select the
table and click 'New Constraint'.

If not, type:

ALTER TABLE mytable
ADD CONSTRAINT constraintname UNIQUE
  (col1, col2, col3)

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