Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.
While testing FILSTREAM with SQL Clone the other day, I kept getting an error while trying to create a table. I’d click Execute and see this:
My mind kept focusing on the ROWGUIDCOL part, and not thinking unique. It’s been a few years since I worked with FILESTREAM as it’s not an Azure feature and things have been going that way for me.
In any case, after running this a few times, and then checking an old demo, I realized that I had forgotten UNIQUE as an attribute for the column. Once I added that, it worked.
The docs for CREATE TABLE shows this that unique is listed as a constraint property, but under the FILESTREAM section, is does say this about the ROWGUID column: “This column must not allow null values and must have either a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY single-column constraint.”
Don’t forget this, but if you do, read the error message,
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This post took me about as long to write as it did to realize I was being silly and forgetting to read. Overall, this was about 10 minutes to compile, take the screenshots, and get the references.
When you write, look for places you’ve learned something, and then use those as ideas for blogs.