Re: Enforced Costraints ??

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 03:26, Daemen, Remco wrote:
> Not good enough ! According to various documents, you should add your own
> primary key (surrogate key), which also makes it easier to keep track of
> history and combine various sources. I agree with Lee: you should never
> implement a PK with non-unique values.
>

Yes! Yes! Yes!

http://www.dbmsmag.com/9805d05.html
http://www.dbpd.com/vault/9805xtra.htm

Plus numerous database design references, anecdoctal experiences, etc.

Jared

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