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>>I think that's why they have cascading updates. <g>
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>One problem with cascading updates is that what do you do when you are talking about HUGE databases, with hundreds of tables linked by the intelligent key, each with many, many records. Possibly a lot of stress on the system.
Another thing: using integers as primary keys gives complex queries an inherent speed boost. This alone is enough argument to use surrogates.
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