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Primary Keys: surrogate or composite??
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29/03/2000 18:04:19
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00348623
Message ID:
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Hi Mike,

>>But your approach also means a bit more complexity in your framework code for assigning pk's generically.
>
>But would you agree that its more self documenting?

Sure, especially in the cases you mentioned where you are referring to primary keys in more than one table.

>...btw, I think now I'm finally getting back :-)

Glad to hear it! Your assignment for tonight is to read all 3,425 or so messages that you missed. And reply to all of them :-)
David Stevenson, MCSD, 2-time VFP MVP / St. Petersburg, FL USA / david@topstrategies.com
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