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Re: Identity key?

From: Jan Hidders <hidders_at_REMOVE.THIS.win.tue.nl>
Date: 10 Jan 2001 10:37:58 GMT
Message-ID: <93he26$1fb$1@news.tue.nl>

Larry Coon wrote:
>
> I'll spare you the gory details, but there are entities in
> our problem domain for which this is not true. At least,
> it takes the entire tuple with a lot of columns to achieve
> identity. And in my case, it's not a matter of understanding
> the problem domain well enough, as another poster suggested.

Would that be me? All I said was that you have to have at least one natural (candidate) key. It is not neccessarily a problem if that key consists of the entire tuple.

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  Jan Hidders
Received on Wed Jan 10 2001 - 04:37:58 CST

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