Unique Secondary Indexes - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Database Reference

Deployment
VantageCloud
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Lake
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Teradata VantageCloud Lake
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Published
February 2025
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2025-11-21
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USIs are useful both for base table access (because USI access is, at worst, a two-AMP operation) and for enforcing data integrity by applying a uniqueness constraint on a column set. Like a unique primary index, a unique secondary index can be used to guarantee row uniqueness.