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Re: Referential Integrity: Best way to reference parent table from child? *Newbie*

From: TPeters197 <tpeters197_at_aol.com>
Date: 2 Nov 1998 19:59:29 GMT
Message-ID: <19981102145929.18371.00002919@ng-fa1.aol.com> 




>would it be more efficient to create an auto-incrementing sequence in




>>the Links field which can then be used as the Primary Key in the Links


>>table.





Yes, I think so. 


I would go with a sequence-generated key, especially since URLs can be long and
ugly.  You will probably need to put a unique constraint on the URL column in
the parent table though.
Received on Mon Nov 02 1998 - 13:59:29 CST












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