Re: Primary keys in tables [restarted]

2005-06-16 Thread SGreen
"Peter Normann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/16/2005 02:15:34 PM: > Sorry guys, > I just learned that ctrl-return would send the email you are composing, so I > got cut off short, so let me try again :-/ > It appears to be usual practice from what I can see in this list to use a > primary k

Primary keys in tables [restarted]

2005-06-16 Thread Peter Normann
Sorry guys, I just learned that ctrl-return would send the email you are composing, so I got cut off short, so let me try again :-/ It appears to be usual practice from what I can see in this list to use a primary key that actually contain somewhat meaningful data. I have always used primary ke

Primary keys in tables

2005-06-16 Thread Peter Normann
Hi everybody, It appears to be usual practice from what I can see in this list to use a primary key that actually contain somewhat meaningful data. I have always used primary keys solely for one purpose only: To identify a table row uniquely, using autoincremental integers. Actually, if I were to