Re: Enforced Costraints (sic) ??

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 09:41, tday6_at_csc.com wrote:
> SSN's are not recycled.

Wanna bet? Maybe not intentionally, but they certainly are.

What about the use of fabricated SSN's for migrant workers?

This is not the illegal use of false documents, but simply a number made up by employers for insurance purposes.

> SSN is a perfectly good PK for personnel systems.

First off, the SSN is a perfectly wretched PK, and should never be used for that purpose. PK's should be a meaningless generated integer. Yeah I'm taking a hard line here, but it needs to be taken.

SSN may make a good UK for personnel systems, provided you don't hire any foreign workers on H1B, or anyone else with work legal status in this country, but no SSN.

Jared

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