diff --git a/tiled/catalog/orm.py b/tiled/catalog/orm.py
index 1968a7235..d5172fdf3 100644
--- a/tiled/catalog/orm.py
+++ b/tiled/catalog/orm.py
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
     Index,
     Integer,
     Unicode,
+    event,
+    text,
 )
 from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import JSONB
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column, relationship
@@ -146,6 +148,31 @@ class DataSourceAssetAssociation(Base):
     )
 
 
+@event.listens_for(DataSourceAssetAssociation.__table__, "after_create")
+def create_trigger_unique_parameter_num_null_check(target, connection, **kw):
+    connection.execute(
+        text(
+            """
+CREATE TRIGGER unique_parameter_num_null_check
+BEFORE INSERT ON data_source_asset_association
+WHEN NEW.num IS NULL
+BEGIN
+    SELECT RAISE(ABORT, 'Can only insert num=NULL if no other row exists for the same parameter')
+    WHERE EXISTS
+    (
+        SELECT 1
+        FROM data_source_asset_association
+        WHERE parameter = NEW.parameter
+        AND data_source_id = NEW.data_source_id
+    );
+END"""
+        )
+    )
+    # Additionally ensure that we cannot mix NULL and INTEGER values of num for
+    # a given data_source_id and parameter, and that there cannot be multiple
+    # instances of NULL.
+
+
 class DataSource(Timestamped, Base):
     """
     The describes how to open one or more file/blobs to extract data for a Node.