Re: Sequence Numbers as Primary Keys
From: Keith Peterson <kp_at_majure.com>
Date: 1995/10/11
Message-ID: <DGAyAE.EH3_at_majure.com>#1/1
|> Recently at work ,there has been a controversy between the application development
|> group (IT) and the database administration group (DBA) concerning using sequence
|> numbers as primary keys and hence as foreign keys in the appropriate table.
|>
|> [deleted]
Date: 1995/10/11
Message-ID: <DGAyAE.EH3_at_majure.com>#1/1
In article <442o26$6dm_at_hudson.lm.com>, jhagans_at_telerama.lm.com (^^^^^^^) writes:
|> Recently at work ,there has been a controversy between the application development
|> group (IT) and the database administration group (DBA) concerning using sequence
|> numbers as primary keys and hence as foreign keys in the appropriate table.
|>
|> [deleted]
I guess that the DBA group does not believe in using part numbers, social security numbers, invoice numbers, purchase order numbers, ISBN numbers, serial numbers, etc.
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