>Walter:
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>I remember a long thread discussing primary keys in which both you and I were involved (6 months?, 1 year ago?) and it was crystal clear to me that the sole reason that most VFP developers were so fanatical about surrogate keys is that it works great in their framework. They won't ever consider using natural keys because it would involve more effort on their part. Appropriateness is not an issue...
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>As I said before, people have to look somewhere other than a VFP forum for a more honest opinion.
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>Daniel
Not me. I actually had to tweak the framework I use, a while ago, to support surrogate keys - which I preferred for other reasons. It was later that the framework started to support surrogate keys.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
