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I'm copying a data view (_unsubscribe) to a standard data extension so I can view it and manipulate it for our preference center.

It a simple query but I'm getting a violation of primary key error. Unsure why this would be the case since the subscriberkey is the primary key and should be entirely unique. It's an update query.

SELECT *
FROM _unsubscribe
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A subscriber can unsubscribe from any individual list, publication list, suppression list, and All Subscribers. So there are many scenarios where a single subscriber key would appear multiple times on the '_Unsubscribe' data view, which is why the data view doesn't have a primary key.

You could either not use a primary key and simply append on each run of the query, or you could create a compound primary key such as 'Subscriber Key + ListID + EventDate".

If you're looking to reference something for a preference center, you would probably be better off reference the '_Subscribers' or '_ListSubscribers' data views - '_Unsubscribe' is more for tracking individual unsubscribe events.

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  • Layer on complication is this: we don’t use publication lists or other lists. – Tom Callahan Jun 21 '18 at 15:31
  • Could be from an unsubscribe --> resubscribe --> unsubscribe scenario perhaps? That would be recorded twice with different dates, potentially leading to the error. – AnonWonderer Jun 21 '18 at 15:34
  • Interesting. That could be it. I'll tool around with it. – Tom Callahan Jun 21 '18 at 21:44

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