Re: Database Design Problem...

From: Joel Garry <joelga_at_pebble.ml.org>
Date: 1998/03/12
Message-ID: <6e9u64$inn$1@pebble.ml.org>#1/1

In article <6e2q8k$hqk$3_at_news00.btx.dtag.de>, Matthias Gresz <GreMa_at_t-online.de> wrote:
>On 10 Mar 1998 04:39:06 GMT, "Birdman" <fanjun_at_writeme.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>what's about a so common book as the 'Holy Bible'? Ther may be a catholique revision an Amish revison and so on. How to distinguish these books other than by an artificial unique key. to use a key
>that has something to do with the books or the book market hat's about the ISBN as primary key? Don't now how ISBN's handle revisions.

They are supposed to be unique, but sometimes aren't.

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