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>>>Hi, Craig
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>>>I tried that a while back. It seems to work ok in the development environment, but had problems in the run time. Or maybe I was doing something else wrong. Who knows?
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>>Even a better reason to just use surrogate keys
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>off the subject a bit, but what is a surrogate key and how are they used? looked in the developers guide but could find nothing.
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>thanks - brenda

'Surrogate' key means that its value does not carry any business sense, i.e. it's usually sequentally generated integer.