Re: all foreign key should have index?

In message <HdqEf.30$cJ2.7533_at_news.uswest.net>, Dan <dan_at_nospam.com> writes
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>Please don't say "embed a pointer in the record..."

Why not, as part of the low-level implementation? As long as the API is purely relational and there is no way of subverting it, the low level is whatever you can invent that works fast.

The physical layer does _not_ have to look like a table!

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Eric Junkermann