On 04/28/2011 10:29 AM, Jim Irrer wrote:
A colleague of mine insists that using surrogate keys is the
common practice by an overwhelming margin in relational databases and
that they are used in 99 percent of large installations. I agree that
many
situations benefit from them, but are they really as pervasive
as he claims?
Well there is no fact to back that up but, I will say that most toolkits
require the use of a synthetic key, rails, django etc....
JD
Thanks,
- Jim
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