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Re: Strategy for Primary Key Generation When Populating Table

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On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Merlin Moncure wrote:

If you can't (which happens on various type of data), then the surrogate
is giving the illusion of row uniqueness when there isn't one.

  Ah, but each row is unique. However, there is no consisten set of non NULL
values that can consistently define a unique key for each row.

Rich


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