Re: Beginner help needed in database design

Frank van Bortel wrote:

> One thing strikes as odd: primary keys are a techie thingy, something
> most database systems need internally; it's not a design, nor a logical
> thing - it's the implementation.

Whoa ... time out. Excuse me. And utterly untrue. No database I can think of "needs" a primary key. Common sense, data integrity, performance, and scalability demand them.

Everything else you said made sense so where did this come from?

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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