Is this the first official case of Will DBA for Beer?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Mike Harrison wrote:<br>
>> performance and your natural key is spread amongst a few different<br>
>> tables. But, if you have a natural key present, use it.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Can you give an example of a "natural key"?<br>
><br>
> I abuse a column called "uniq" because my framework<br>
> makes it easy to manipulate any table single record<br>
> if that column is present..<br>
><br>
> But you have me wondering what you mean.. I assume you mean things like<br>
> "transaction number" or "account id"..<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>That's it. Any field that is unique and can be used to identify a<br>
specific row.<br>
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Jim.<br>
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