Re: Enforce primary key on every table during dev?

["David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+1. And a good test of your underlying data model is whether you can
identify a natural primary key. If you can't, chances are your model is
immature/flawed and needs more analysis.

​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

Unfortunately identifying a natural primary key doesn't guarantee that one's model is mature, unblemished, and complete - the model writer may just not know what they don't know.  But they may know enough, or the application is constrained enough, for it to be useful anyway.

David J.