Galen Boyer wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
>> howa wrote:
>>> Seems AUTO_INCREMENT is very handy and natural, anyone agree?
>
> Has its merit. I like the way sequences are not tied to a single
> table. Gives one much more flexibility.
>
>
>> No. Autoincrement is a brain-damaged way of creating surrogate
>> keys.
>
> And what, may I ask, is the non-brain damaged way of using sequences?
I wasn't referring to sequences. I was referring to autoincrementing
identity columns.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Sun Apr 15 2007 - 12:58:36 CDT
