Dave Watts wrote:
>
> > There is no need for a primary key in a one-tabled database.
>
> You'll need some way to determine what makes any individual record unique,
> or your data won't be worth very much, even within a single table.
I looked. Approach must do something internally. It's not really
a database, but a flat-file application. Only one table per file.
Filemaker Pro uses (or used) a similiar implementation.
That's what I was referring to.
> That's
> what primary keys are for. Whether you explicitly define this as a table
> attribute isn't the issue, but you'll need to use something as a primary
> key.
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