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Re: Negative Numbers in "Identity" or" Autonumber" fields

From: -CELKO- <jcelko212_at_earthlink.net>
Date: 19 Mar 2007 18:09:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1174352980.559694.313280@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> 





>> Any thought's on using negative numbers as surrogate primary keys?  <<




Since surrogatres are never seen by the users by definition, they
could be anything -- positive or negative, or additive congruence
sequences or has code or etc. The question would be in implementation
-- does the particular SQL engine favor a sequence or a randomly
distributed value for performance min whatever access method it is
using?
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 20:09:40 CDT












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