Re: Number formatting question

From: Ashish <srivastava.ashish_at_gmail.com>
Date: 6 Sep 2006 07:01:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1157551290.783659.74360@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

> You are correct. You didn't ask for the advice ... you got it anyway.
> The design of a primary key as you have described it is an issue that
> that has been covered numerous times by experts in the field. What you
> describe belongs in two separate columns. And had you done that the
> question you asked would have been unnecessary.
>

Well, let me just clarify that this key is NOT my primary key. I have another field called CONFIG_ID that is populated by a sequence. This key is something that the user will see on the UI, and using which he can query existing data.

Ashish Received on Wed Sep 06 2006 - 09:01:30 CDT