>Hilmar:
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>> 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.
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>Does your framework support both surrogate and natural keys? Mine does because I don't "prefer" using surrogate keys over natural keys or vice-versa. I use what I consider appropriate for the situation at hand.
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>Daniel
Visual Extend started out with poor support of surrogate keys - especially the lookup part.
And yes, in some cases I use natural keys, too. But in general, I give preference to the surrogate keys.
Hilmar.
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