Re: SQL Humor

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:37:45 +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih_at_hamartun.priv.no> wrote:

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>Of course, the member number has no physical reality, and it will be
>an automatically assigned serial number (without reuse of defunct
>numbers when people quit or die) -- generally, it seems to be what you
>rant against.

     No, it is when the number is referring to how the data is physically stored. If the number is a record number or an address or other such, then it ties your data to the physical implementation. A member number (if used just as that) would not do that.

>Am I doing something stupid here? If so, why?

     You are misunderstanding.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Fri Aug 19 2005 - 23:17:26 CEST