From: "peter walker" Subject: Re: I am confused as to whether I should use numeric IDs or not Date: 2000/02/04 Message-ID: #1/1 References: <87ac3u$fkf$1@newsmaster01.magnet.at> <3898E678.A2F6F6B6@ecologic.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 949654543 139.134.229.245 (Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:55:43 EST) Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:55:43 EST Newsgroups: comp.database.oracle,comp.databases.ms-access,comp.databases.theory,microsoft.public.access Chuck Grimsby wrote in message news:nauj9s4bau5td16uu3sm12othjgnajugoo@4ax.com... > > Errr.. Ahh... Peter.... I don't know how to tell you this, but... > ahh... Start worrying! Yeah, I can understand transactions having a unique id, I use them myself, I was referring to my account as an entity, not the transactions against the account. I can imagine my account number travels along through each wrapping (like ip in tcp/ip) in cross bank transactions. I was referring to the practice of giving us a unique visa number as the key to an account, not a combination of name on card, expirydate, etc to form the key. (Which may form another key as well..) I worry about banks anyway, the level of charges is inversely proportional to service, and service is in a geometric progression downwards here in Oz. An Australian bank is the closest thing to a perpetual motion machine I will ever see. peter walker