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Duplicate values that should be unique is such a common problem if you don't use constraints.

This is a good example of why ACID and declarative constraints are a very good idea for data management.You can do a bad delete from query if you don't have the proper safeguards (though querying ability of SQL lets you more easily preview your changes), but the initial corruption of the data is an easily avoidable problem.




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