Re: Primary Key Theory Question
From: Mike Sherrill <MSherrillnonono_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:08:33 -0500
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 06:08:33 -0500
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:27:18 +0200, "ben brugman" <ben_at_niethier.nl>
wrote:
>> Do you know what "surrogate" means? (I think you're talking about an
Where did you find those definitions?
>> artificial key, not a surrogate key. I could be wrong.)
>>
>I think I 'know' what "surrogate" means.
>
>Artificial : SSN, ISBN.
>
>Surrogate : a unique key (often extra), mostly used only in internal
>programming.
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Mike Sherrill
Information Management Systems
Received on Thu Apr 01 2004 - 13:08:33 CEST