Perhaps they were referring to indexes? Such as a customer type field within the customer file. You could have customer 123 and customer 456 with the same customer type of "WHL" and the index on Customer Type would have WHL in there 'twice', once for each customer.
Thanks, Marilyn A. Hilb Value Part, Inc Direct: 847-918-6099 Fax: 847-367-1892 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.valuepart.com -----Original Message----- From: Kathleeni M Bodine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:35 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Unique Ids The person who had the comment has worked in the MV world for how long. The only time I have seen this was when a file was corrupted. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:38 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Unique Ids I just came out of a meeting where it was stated that MV databases allow non-unique keys. Now I have been working in the VM world since 1983 and although I can remember a time when some of the implementations had 'problems' with hash and specific data in keys .. i can not think of a time when MV tables allowed non-unique keys. 'Say it aint so Joe' .. If anyone knows of any implementation which specifically allows non-unique ids .. please let me know .. show me the light. Have I be in the back room eating twinkies too long? thanks DSig David Tod Sigafoos SigsSolutions, Inc. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
