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Re: Surrogate Key vs Production Key

From: Brian Dick <bdick_at_cox.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:16:15 -0400
Message-ID: <1ta7ivr35nc6y$.11mvio27q1m1p.dlg@40tude.net>


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:47:20 -0700, ats wrote:

> Joel Garry wrote:
> 

>> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1097431960.682256_at_yasure>...
>>
>>>>Arguments, you want?  Already supplied a few.  Here is more:
>>>
>>>I don't think you truly have an argument as I can not think of a single
>>>time in the last 5 years I have found a reason to update (modify) a
>>>natural key. I think you've been eating too much red herring ... try
>>>salmon instead.

>>
>>
>> I guess you haven't worked for a business that had a customer buy
>> another customer. Then some of the users want the keys updated so
>> they can compare current and past sales, and some don't because they
>> used to be different customers under different salespeople.
>>
>> jg
>> --
>> @home.com is bogus.
>> http://www.empowered.org/
> 
> No one has purchased Boeing or AT&T Wireless, recently so you are
> correct.

AT&T Wireless was sold to Cingular last February. Received on Tue Oct 12 2004 - 07:16:15 CDT

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