Re: J2EE Question

Are the J2EE developers really developing the code or are they installing prewritten code? They should be able to concatenate the 2 keys, or write trigger that creates the concatenation in a 3rd field.

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:

> We are in the process of creating some significant new schemas. Everything
> is being normalized, by the book. Now the Java developers are saying that on
> the associative entities, where many-to-many relationships are resolved by
> an extra table, they want an artificial key to be added. Normally these
> tables have two keys, one from each parent table. But the developers want an
> additional sequential key added to help them track this entity. They say it
> makes it easier to keep track of this object in the EJBs. Has anyone
> encountered this situation? Not being familiar with J2EE, I haven't a clue
> whether this is a reasonable request.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
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