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Larry Coon wrote:
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> 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.
-- Jan HiddersReceived on Wed Jan 10 2001 - 04:37:58 CST
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