Duplicate Row Checks for SET Tables with NUPIs - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

Database Design

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2025-11-21
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lifecycle
Product Category
Teradata Vantageā„¢

Database tables defined with the SET attribute in the CREATE TABLE kind clause do not permit duplicate rows. Any time a row is inserted into a SET table having a NUPI and no uniqueness constraints or indexes, the system performs a duplicate row check.

When Vantage checks for duplicate rows, it considers nulls to be equal, while in SQL conditions, null comparisons evaluate to UNKNOWN. See Inconsistencies in How SQL Treats Nulls for information about how nulls are interpreted by commercially available relational database management systems.