Re: multiple PRI indexes

2001-08-29 Thread David Turner
He may mean a composite primary key, which is a primary key based on two columns. On whether this is a good idea or not it's really a question of whether you want to use natural or surrogate keys on your tables. A composite key is typically a natural key. A natural key is a key with information

Re: multiple PRI indexes

2001-08-29 Thread Paul DuBois
At 10:33 AM -0500 8/29/01, shawn reed wrote: >is it generally recommended / a good idea to have more than one PRI index >in the same table? i've never seen that before until today while trying >to track down bugs in someone else's system and noticed a table with 2 PRI >indexes. will this cause a

RE: multiple PRI indexes

2001-08-29 Thread Chris Bolt
> is it generally recommended / a good idea to have more than one PRI index > in the same table? i've never seen that before until today while trying > to track down bugs in someone else's system and noticed a table with 2 PRI > indexes. will this cause any problems? It shouldn't cause any prob