Re: Normalization, Natural Keys, Surrogate Keys
From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:37:30 -0600
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:37:30 -0600
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"--CELKO--" <71062.1056_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:c0d87ec0.0205201359.120ca460_at_posting.google.com...
> >> The SSN is a surrogate key itself, and a BAD one at that. There
are
> duplicates out there. <<
>
> With Mexican illegals in Calfornia, Texas and other states,
Singling out one ethnic group isn't very productive.... oh well ... amazing ... no, actually it's not ...
Businesses operated by good old American citizens are generating duplicate social security numbers for illegal aliens.
-- Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering mailto:pablo_at_hpdbe.com http://www.hpdbe.com Available for short-term and long-term contractsReceived on Tue May 21 2002 - 00:37:30 CEST