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Uniqueness of 'primary_key' is violated.
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18/09/2004 16:51:16
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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18/09/2004 16:42:32
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00939529
Message ID:
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>FWIW you are keying on DATA ! Don't want to start a religious war here but my own 2 cents is nevernevernevernever key on data ( i.e. something the user sees and can change ) The PK would be better off being a guid or being system generated and the cust_no being a candidate key

Hehe, "religious" seems to be a very appropriate word in this context.

I too, prefer keys which are not visible to the user (at least, most of the time).
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)
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