The will be querying off of customer id, check number, etc but they
cannot guarantee the combination of customer and check or various other
columns will be a unique row so the need for a sequence. The columns
that would normally make up the PK are ALMOST always unique but once in
a while ...
This data is coming from banks - how accurate can it be? :)
Once they receive the rows back that match the query they will then do
a second select using the rowid returned from the first select to pull
back the specific images.
- Brian
--- "Gogala, Mladen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, how are you going to locate the image you need? If none of the
> supported data is needed to describe or locate the image, why have
> the
> data at all? I'm not quite sure how to answer your question.
>
>
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>
>
> I know this violates the most basic data modeling techniques but tell
> me what you think.
>
> I'm working on creating a new database which will be fairly small in
> number of tables ~8 but large in storage size ~4 terabytes with
> millions of records eventually.
>
> The 3 large tables will hold small images along with supporting data
> and the only reason I can see to have a primary key is to have a
> primary key. There is not a natural key for the tables so it would
> be
> a sequence which would never be selected against. Given the number of
> records all I can see it doing is taking up space, increase the time
> of
> the imports, generate more redo logs, etc and I can't see the
> benefits.
>
> There won't be any tables hanging off of these, I won't be using
> snapshots, replication or anything else I can think of that would
> require a PK but the voice 'YOU MUST HAVE A PRIMARY KEY' is
> resounding
> loudly in my head so I must ask why?
>
> Tell me what you think.
>
> Thanks
>
> - Brian
>
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