User defined tables: amending Index on the database level. Opinions???

Hi everybody who has some spare time to read my stuff
I had a problem that some of you might have had. I have a user defined table, lets call it ProductTypes. Now system by default creates two columns in this table, one is Code (primary key) and another is Name (Index). I have added third column called Department. Now, if I wanted to add the following data (see bellow) to the table I would have had a constraint violation message pointing me out that I have problems with indexing.
Code, Name, Department
1, Cream, Fragrances
2, Cream, Beauty Products
^^
I could thing of couple workarounds of this problem
1. Is to duplicate Code into Name and storing rest of the data using user columns
Code, Name, Product Name, Department
1, 1,Cream, Fragrances
2, 2, Cream, Beauty Products
This approach isnt very convenient as it requires UI development should we decide to attach this table to the Item master data form in a form of combo box.
2. Is to amend Index on the database level. Initially, the index KProductTypes_Name consisted of only one column Name, what I have done is added another column which is Code to indexing. I dont see how this can harm database consistency or damage the core system. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Another way of amending index in order to solve my problem could be choosing ignoring duplicate values option for column Name.
Please let me know what are your thoughts.
Best wishes

> Why don't you try adding a trigger 'instead of
> insert' where code = max(code)1 and name=max(name)1
> and use only user columns for your data. This
> provided you know SQL basics.
in this scenario we would have to do UI SDK development for the output and going to have an extra column with meaningless data in it.

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