diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Persistence/Migrations/Upgrades/TargetVersionSevenTwoZero/AddIndexToUmbracoNodeTable.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/Persistence/Migrations/Upgrades/TargetVersionSevenTwoZero/AddIndexToUmbracoNodeTable.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8260a13e6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Persistence/Migrations/Upgrades/TargetVersionSevenTwoZero/AddIndexToUmbracoNodeTable.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+using System.Linq;
+using Umbraco.Core.Configuration;
+using Umbraco.Core.Persistence.DatabaseModelDefinitions;
+using Umbraco.Core.Persistence.SqlSyntax;
+
+namespace Umbraco.Core.Persistence.Migrations.Upgrades.TargetVersionSevenTwoZero
+{
+    [Migration("7.2.0", 3, GlobalSettings.UmbracoMigrationName)]
+    public class AddIndexToUmbracoNodeTable : MigrationBase
+    {
+        private readonly bool _skipIndexCheck;
+
+        internal AddIndexToUmbracoNodeTable(bool skipIndexCheck)
+        {
+            _skipIndexCheck = skipIndexCheck;
+        }
+
+        public AddIndexToUmbracoNodeTable()
+        {
+        }
+
+        public override void Up()
+        {
+            var dbIndexes = _skipIndexCheck ? new DbIndexDefinition[] { } : SqlSyntaxContext.SqlSyntaxProvider.GetDefinedIndexes(Context.Database)
+                .Select(x => new DbIndexDefinition
+                {
+                    TableName = x.Item1,
+                    IndexName = x.Item2,
+                    ColumnName = x.Item3,
+                    IsUnique = x.Item4
+                }).ToArray();
+
+            //make sure it doesn't already exist
+            if (dbIndexes.Any(x => x.IndexName.InvariantEquals("IX_umbracoNodeUniqueID")) == false)
+            {
+                Create.Index("IX_umbracoNodeUniqueID").OnTable("umbracoNode").OnColumn("uniqueID").Unique();
+            }
+        }
+
+        public override void Down()
+        {
+            Delete.Index("IX_umbracoNodeUniqueID").OnTable("umbracoNode");
+        }
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
index 49d04a33b3..da47e24a80 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Persistence\Migrations\Upgrades\TargetVersionSevenTwoZero\AddMissingForeignKeyForContentType.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\Migrations\Upgrades\TargetVersionSevenTwoZero\AlterDataTypePreValueTable.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\Migrations\Upgrades\TargetVersionSevenOneZero\AssignMissingPrimaryForMySqlKeys.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Persistence\Migrations\Upgrades\TargetVersionSevenTwoZero\AddIndexToUmbracoNodeTable.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\Migrations\Upgrades\TargetVersionSevenTwoZero\RemoveCmsDocumentAliasColumn.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\Migrations\Upgrades\TargetVersionSeven\AssignMissingKeysAndIndexes.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\Migrations\Upgrades\TargetVersionSixTwoZero\AssignMissingPrimaryForMySqlKeys.cs" />