Without seeing the table structure,If you are interested in knowing which columns uniquely identify a row in a table, you can use this system procedure EXEC sp_special_columns table_name...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/t-sql/archive/2009/03/06/5480.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5480" width="1" height="1">