Re: Primary keys, Surrogate keys and SSN

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:05:52 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00326FF0.20010612231111@fatcity.com>

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 13:19, Jared Still wrote:

> The only real downfall of surrogate keys is that it may require a developer
> to do a join on the FK to the parent table to get the unique key
> information.

Well, there are other downfalls on a system with a high transaction rate, but there are ways to deal with them.

Jonatha Lewis' book 'Practical Oracle 8i' has several suggestions.

Jared

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