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From: Tokyo Alex on 8 Jan 2010 04:03
Dear Allen, David, Fred and Keith,

Thanks very much for the responses. Gives me some things to think about.

Alex.


"Tokyo Alex" wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> As a relative newbie to the art/science of database design, I was wondering
> if there was any consensus view on whether it's better to use an AutoNumber
> field as primary key for a table rather than select a (human-understandable)
> natural key, assuming one exists that you can guarantee will be unique.
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From: Fred on 8 Jan 2010 11:22
I'd say the same thing. I should have clarified that post was actually just
about the "everything else" cases.
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