I've been carefully reading all of the comments with great interest.
Thanks very much for the thoughtful responses - very enlightening.
- Jim (the topic originator)
Jim Irrer ir...@umich.edu (734) 647-4409
University of Michigan Hospital Radiation Oncology
519 W. Willi
A colleague of mine insists that using surrogate keys is the
common practice by an overwhelming margin in relational databases and
that they are used in 99 percent of large installations. I agree that many
situations benefit from them, but are they really as pervasive
as he claims?
Thanks,
- Jim
