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>>>OTOH, we also use the 'practice' of using meaningless int fields as PKs and they indeed avoid a lot of problems. OTOH, it does not make any other 'practise' against the relational model or even bad practice.
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>>>Walter,
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>>True, but as soon as you write a trigger and try to join
>>INSERTED and DELETED tables as you do it?
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>I hate to jump in with a simple "good point", but that's a very good point. It's going to have at least some impact on the traditional patterns and processes for audit trail logging.

Perhaps you can explain... I'm missing the point entirely.