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What should the primary key be?
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From
05/05/1999 12:14:53
Raymond Humphrys
Michigan Department of Community Health
Bath, Michigan, United States
 
 
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02/02/1999 00:42:52
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00182646
Message ID:
00215381
Views:
40
Out of curiosity how do you GUID to generate Primary Keys?

thanks
>Hiya Craig ----
>
>I hate @*#^@^&# integers :-)
>
>I used to use SYS(3), then went to SYS(2015) and now I'm quite happy generating GUIDs for primary keys.....any system which relies on an incremented number, in VFP, is suspect IMHO...now in SQL that's a different story.
>
>>
>>Actually, Mac went into great detail about why integer is better than character. There is an article on my website that discusses primary keys.
Some days it's not worth chewing through the leather straps ...
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