Re: Database design, Keys and some other things

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 18:44:42 GMT
Message-ID: <uOA%e.26976$1i.8512@pd7tw2no>

mAsterdam wrote:
> Marshall Spight wrote:
>
> ...

>> We were discussing whether there was a difference between
>> the natures of external ids vs. surrogate keys. What is
>> essential to this question is what their nature is. Generally
>> we do not regard context-specific considerations as essential.

>
>
> It matters wether data come from the outside or
> from the inside of the system - the context of the data.

If you say the answer to this matters, aren't you saying that the CWA doesn't matter? Doesn't the CWA give us a db all the context it needs?

p Received on Sat Oct 01 2005 - 13:44:42 CDT