Re: Database Design - Relationsships

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: 21 Sep 2002 21:29:24 -0500
Message-ID: <Xns9290D07826233pingottpingottbah@192.168.1.1>

71062.1056_at_compuserve.com (--CELKO--) wrote in news:c0d87ec0.0209211249.24f54963_at_posting.google.com:

>>> As a side note, this problem is also a good example of the
>>> issues 

> associated
> with using identity values as you previously pointed out. <<
>
> Thank you! I get so much hassle for fighting against IDENTITY,
> GUID, et al in the newsgroups, you'd think I was a war criminal.

I haven't seen your justifications on _not_ using them. I'd like to hear what it is and see if it's balanced along the _entire_ software life cycle.

Yes, I'm a proponent of surrogate keys. :)

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Sat Sep 21 2002 - 21:29:24 CDT