Si,

Oooh, this hurt my little gray cells!!! The flaw in your thinking
below is that you want ICX_simon_left and ICX_simon_right to be equal
and they never will. I think you're going to have to create a trigger
to simulate the ICX_simon_right check. Something like the following:

CREATE TRIGGER Check_Insert
ON simon1
FOR INSERT
AS
declare @c2 as int
set @c2 = (select c2 from inserted)
if exists (select *
from simon1 S
where s.c1 = @c2)
begin
rollback
raiserror ('Cannot insert duplicate key row in object ''simon1''',
14, 1)
end

S. Davey (7/31)


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>>> "Loach Simon "
<mssqldba-ezmlmshield-x7767669.[Email address protected] 07/31/07 6:11
AM >>>
Hi All


I think my brains in advanced ready to go on holiday mode so some help
would
be appreciated


Got this table ..

drop table simon1
go

create table simon1

(
c1 int,
c2 int
)

alter table simon1
add constraint ck_test2 check (c1 <> c2)

CREATE unique INDEX ICX_simon_left ON simon1(c1,c2)
CREATE unique INDEX ICX_simon_right ON simon1(c2,c1)
go

insert simon1 (c1,c2)
values ('1','2')

insert simon1 (c1,c2)
values ('5','6')

insert simon1 (c1,c2)
values ('6','5')


The final "constraint" I want to be able to apply is if 5,6 exists
already
I want it to fail if the user tries to insert 6,5

Any wonderful suggestions gratefully received (go on ed you can do it
)


~si


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