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Unique Constraint Violated

Joseph.DuJul 12 2013 — edited Jul 12 2013

Hi folks,

I've two tables as below shows:

*****************************************************************

Create table SCOTT.T61_11

(

ID Number,

COL1   char(100) invisible,

COL2   Varchar2(1100) invisible,

Constraint T61_11_Uniq_COL2 UNIQUE(COL2) DEFERRABLE

);

Insert Into SCOTT.T61_11 (id,col1,col2) Values(1,'garçon','garçon');

Insert Into SCOTT.T61_11 (id,col1,col2) Values(2,'tempête','tempête');

Insert Into SCOTT.T61_11 (id,col1,col2) Values(3,'a','a');

commit;

Create table SCOTT.T11

(

ID Number,

COL1   char(20) ,

COL2   Varchar2(20) ,

Constraint T11_Uniq_COL2 UNIQUE(COL2) DEFERRABLE

);

Insert Into SCOTT.T11 (id,col1,col2) Values(1,'garçon','garçon');

Insert Into SCOTT.T11 (id,col1,col2) Values(2,'tempête','tempête');

Insert Into SCOTT.T11 (id,col1,col2) Values(3,'a','a');

commit;

***************************************************************************


Then I tried to disable these two constraints like:

alter table SCOTT.T61_11 disable constraint T61_11_Uniq_COL2;

alter table SCOTT.T11 disable constraint T11_Uniq_COL2;


And then I enable these two constraints:


alter table SCOTT.T61_11 enable constraint T61_11_Uniq_COL2;

alter table SCOTT.T11 enable constraint T11_Uniq_COL2;


At this time, when I execute SQL like:


Insert Into SCOTT.T61_11 (id,col1,col2) Values(3,'a','a');
Insert Into SCOTT.T11 (id,col1,col2) Values(3,'a','a');


What result should I suppose to get? I assume that I cannot insert these two lines successfully since we have already enable the constraints.

But the result shows that in SCOTT.T11,it would raise "ORA-00001:unique constraint (%s.%s) violated" while in SCOTT.T61_11, the data can be inserted into table successfully. This makes me confused.

Can anyone help to explain how could this happen, please? Thanks.

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