> I was faced with a similar issue. One suggestion I got from the Internet
> was to create a shadow column that contains the values used in the Index,
> with a dummy entry (in my case, the string <NULL>) for those records in
> which the primary column is NULL. It works well for my app.
Michael,
thank you.
This is not working in my case. Uniquenes sis not sufficient: I need
referential integrity with uniqueness. If I add <NULL> department, this must
be added into department table also and pollutes this table.
Andrus.
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