>>>Forced use of generated PKs
>>I think you'll find that's not just a Fox position: I first read about
>Surrogate Keys in Databased Advisor back in '94 or so.
>Nope, this is not the case.

Oh, so I _didn't_ read about Surrogate Keys in Databased Advisor. Thank you for kindly informing me of this....

>Generated PK's are esspecially usefull in xBase because of the deleted records
>still existing in the table. This only applies to xBase. I don't reject the
>use of generated keys, but I do reject the FORCED use of them. In a lot of
>cases the use of them are doubtfull at the least and there are other
>knowledgable people who reject them when not neccesary. Joe Celko is a great
>refference for this.

http://www.elementkjournals.com/dbm/9708/dbm9781.htm
http://www.teleport.com/~bstonier/devhbook/databasedesign.html
http://www.dbpd.com/vault/9805xtra.htm
http://www.bcarter.com/intsurr1.htm
http://www.datakitti.com/surrogate.htm

Not an xBase article among them. They don't all argue for Surrogates exclusively, but some do....