WARNING - TOTALLY ESOTERIC AND NOT REALLY RELEVANT TO ORIGINAL POST:

In that case "John Koziol" is as much a data-bearing ID as "234-20-9302." Just because it is likely to not be a very good one (the only good key id is a surrogate, IMNSHO).

>And to continue the "rag on Nancy" vein, who said anything about surrogates? Could be a data-bearing ID number or a surrogate but still needs a key. (I'm just yanking your chain) ;-)
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