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Primary key

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

In a normalised database, all tables should have a PRIMARY KEY. In jOOQ, numerous features are enabled by tables that have one, including for example UpdatableRecords. To create a table with a primary key, write any of these:

// Create a new table with columns and unnamed constraints
create.createTable("table")
      .column("column1", INTEGER)
      .constraints(
          primaryKey("column1")
      )
      .execute();

// Create a new table with columns and named constraints (recommended if you want to alter the constraint)
create.createTable("table")
      .column("column1", INTEGER)
      .constraints(
          constraint("pk").primaryKey("column1")
      )
      .execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

createTable("table")
      .column("column1", INTEGER)
      .constraints(
          constraint("pk").primaryKey("column1")
      )

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- ACCESS, FIREBIRD, HANA
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 integer,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- ASE, SYBASE
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int NULL,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, HSQLDB, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, YUGABYTEDB
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- BIGQUERY
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int64
)

-- COCKROACHDB
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int4,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- DB2, TERADATA
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 integer NOT NULL,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- INFORMIX
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 integer,
  PRIMARY KEY (column1) CONSTRAINT pk
)

-- MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, SQLSERVER
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int NOT NULL,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- ORACLE, SNOWFLAKE
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 number(10),
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED (column1) NOT ENFORCED
)

-- SQLITE
CREATE TABLE "table" (
  column1 int,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

-- TRINO
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int
)

-- VERTICA
CREATE TABLE table (
  column1 int,
  dummy int,
  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (column1)
)

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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