Re: Surrogate Keys: an Implementation Issue

>> In the particular DBMS implementation I'm working on I need an immutable identifer for each row due to rollback and audit requirements. <<

You need to look at Sand (bit vectors) and Teradata (hashing) for other ways to build a VLDB.

"Caesar: Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian and thinks the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." - Caesar and Cleopatra; George Bernard Shaw 1898 Received on Sat Jul 22 2006 - 17:14:53 CDT