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Re: Beginner help needed in database design

From: Sybrand Bakker <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:08:49 +0100
Message-ID: <taetv05k8raffq19qllm3122qn8ad0ogh3@4ax.com> 





On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:32:20 -0800, DA Morgan
<damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:



>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.





Amen to that.



Death to database designers creating tables without any constraint and
without any index.



--
Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA


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