Re: Using rowid in a html anchor / select statement

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Thomas J. Kyte wrote:

> A rowid is just a primary key assigned by the system. Unless you are using a
> generated key (like a sequence number) that doesn't ever reuse values, yes, a
> rowid will get reused eventually. Same with any other primary key though.

Yes, but I *do* use sequence numbers as primary keys, and thus I can make sure that an external reference will never point to the wrong record because I'll never re-use the same key. There's no way I can do this with rowids.

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Steve Kanefsky