Re: Surrogate Key vs Production Key

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: 17 Oct 2004 08:30:28 -0700
Message-ID: <73e20c6c.0410170730.1f60fb01@posting.google.com>

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<41705a9c$0$24889$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...

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> I do wish you wouldn't get so heated.
>

Funny. I'm "heated", and "emotional" and all that. And yet, I'm not the one that uses the words "sloppy" and "rubbish" or takes on a patronising attitude. Ever.

> worth getting that worked up about. But I do think that an appeal to
> numbers ("the rest of the IT world uses synthetics") is not calculated to
> win anyone over. The rest of the IT world also uses Windows.

It's not "the rest". It's ALL major commercial applications. WITHOUT exception. There is a HUGE difference. It would be interesting if the supporters of natural keys for once gave up on the self-righteous thing and just looked at the reasons why. They might actually learn something very important about making commercial software. Received on Sun Oct 17 2004 - 10:30:28 CDT