Re: Separate foreign keys with shared ID space

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"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:dqKdnYKfZI3MJJPcRVn-sA_at_comcast.com...
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> "Christian Antognini" <christian.antognini_at_trivadis.com> wrote in message
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> > A PK should have no business meaning. Therefore, I'll not add such a
> column
> > to the primary key.
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> This is too strongly stated.
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> The following sounds better to me:
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> A PK should have no business meaning other than to identify (an instance
of)
> an entity or a (reified) relationship.
>

I completely agree with you!

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