没有主键的连接表

Question

Say I have a junction table to resolve a many to many relationship I have between two tables. My junction table also has its own 'Method' column to describe the relationship.

Normally, I would make a composite primary key of [a], [b] and [method] (the method needs to be part of what makes a row unique), but my problem is that [method] field can be NULL. Therefore I cannot add it to the primary key.

So what I've done is create a unique index:

ALTER TABLE A_B ADD UNIQUE INDEX `Unique` (`a`, `b`, `method`);

The table has no primary key. Is this an okay thing to do or do I need to do something differently?

Answer 1

Using a primary key is not the only way to ensure records uniqueness. There is a unique constraint you can implement to accomplish what is needed.

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_unique.asp