Re: Primary Key of type string ?

lrobins1_at_frontiernet.net wrote:
> Guys,
> I'm an MS SQL guy and wanted to verify something before I said
> anything (at work).
> If the only business requirement in an Oracle 10 db is that a BO (biz
> object) has a unique identifier, and this identifier is not created
> using data from said BO, would it ever make sense to use char data for
> this id field?

Yes.

But business rules should be established for such matters. What is the business rule? If you don't know ... have someone tell you.

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