Re: Separate foreign keys with shared ID space
From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org>
Date: 31 Jul 2004 18:46:32 GMT
Message-ID: <2n27o8Fs39uuU1_at_uni-berlin.de>
Date: 31 Jul 2004 18:46:32 GMT
Message-ID: <2n27o8Fs39uuU1_at_uni-berlin.de>
After a long battle with technology, "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com>, an earthling, wrote:
> "Christian Antognini" <christian.antognini_at_trivadis.com> wrote in message news:410affcf$1_at_post.usenet.com...
>>
>> A PK should have no business meaning.
>
> Says who? Can you justify this statement?
A good reason for this is that business meanings can change, but primary keys can't.
-- (format nil "~S_at_~S" "cbbrowne" "acm.org") http://cbbrowne.com/info/sgml.html "That's convenience, not cracker-proofing. Security is an emergent property, not a feature." -- void <float_at_interport.net>Received on Sat Jul 31 2004 - 20:46:32 CEST