Re: Surrogate Key vs Production Key

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:16:15 -0400, Brian Dick <bdick_at_cox.net> wrote:

>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.

So we've come full circle. Cingular was a creation of at least one of the 'Baby Bells' (Bell South) which was spun off by the breakup of AT&T. Received on Tue Oct 12 2004 - 11:42:00 CDT