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Re: Beginner help needed in database design

From: Mark A <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:16:32 -0700
Message-ID: <1fCdnbjYLPtvVGPcRVn-vw@comcast.com> 





> >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




The biggest problem is usually that too many indexes are created.
Received on Mon Jan 31 2005 - 18:16:32 CST












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