At 02:32 PM 10/30/2001 -0700, Steve Meyers wrote:
What would be ideal would be to use auto-incremented numeric fields as
primary key fields, and then have a special field in each table
designated
as the user-friendly field. That way, when you want to view the
contents
of a table, the
Use a join query, rather than separate single-table queries:
SELECT a.*, n.url
FROM articles a, news_sites n
WHERE a.news_site_key = n.news_site_key;
-- Greg Johnson
-Original Message-
From: Bennett Haselton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 13:10, Bennett Haselton wrote:
I'm creating a database where one of the tables stores data about news Web
sites, and I'm using the URL of the site as a primary key field. This
field value might change occasionally. I'm wondering if this is bad
practice, especially
