Re: Surrogate keys (Was: enums)

[Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>]

Martjin,

> Interesting. However, in my experience very few things have "natural
> keys". There are no combination of attributes for people, phone calls
> or even real events that make useful natural keys.

I certainly hope that I never have to pick up one of your projects.   A 
table without a natural key is a data management disaster.   Without a 
key, it's not data, it's garbage.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco