Re: Question on Primary Keys

There are database "gurus" who claim that you should never ever use class attributes as primary key.
Instead you add a DBMS-generated primary key value column to each and every table. They even claim that these keys should be unique within the database; if a Client_Num value 12345 exists, you should not use Order_Num 12345.
The reason was that primary key values may never change (agree) and that an object might become of a different class sometime (disagree; I've never seen Clients who became an Order).

(I burned this book, I must add)

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