Re: Oracle NULL vs '' revisited

On Aug 24, 1:50 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> Tony Rogerson wrote:
>
> >> ID FNAME LNAME
> >> 1 Daniel Morgan
> >> 2 Jack Cline
> >> 3 Daniel Morgan
>
> >> That surrogate key accomplished precisely what?
>
> > And where is your natural key?
>
> The point was to demonstrate the surrogate keys are worthless
> for purposes of data integrity with most data. What ends up
> happening is that unique constraints are then built, on top of
> the surrogate key, in an attempt to do what the surrogate can
> not.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org

Could you clowns just take this offline?

Ok you have both already proven you are both just incredibly brilliant people. We get it already ... Received on Fri Aug 24 2007 - 14:24:14 CDT