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Howdy!

...and you describe exactly the kind of situation where a surrogate key becomes necessary.

I simply object to the terminology which implies that primary keys are, necessarily, opaque values stored in a single column. Changing the title to refer to surrogate keys would fix that.

yours,
Michael

In reply to Re^3: An improved technique for database primary keys by herveus
in thread An alternate technique for database primary keys by sundialsvc4

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