In the last episode (Aug 16), Fr. Robert Bower said:
> Is it a good idea to use an auto increment field as a primary key in mysql?
> I know in some products like paradox it is a bad idea because of possible
> corruption problems down the road?
If you get corrupt databases, don't blame the primary key. Blame the
databse software. :)
You almost always want your autoincrement field to be your primary key,
no matter what database you're using.
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Dan Nelson
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