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Primary keys and candidate keys
Hi everyone,
One solution to avoid duplicate keys when you delete a record and add a new one with the same ‘business key value’ is to use surrogate keys (integer values).
But, if i want to enforce unique values for my business key (Ex: social security number) using candidate indexes, i find that problem again: Duplicate keys.
Any workarounds? I have been updating ‘business key fields’ with negative random values after deleting the record. It works, but it’s a strange trick, isn’t it?
How do you solve this?
Thanks,
Juan Carlos Jaramillo.
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