Re: pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 23:07 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> I see this whole area as being similar to SQL injection.  The same way
> that you just can't trust data input by the user to ever be secure, you
> can't trust inputs to your database will ever be unique in the way you
> expect them to be.

So, don't trust them to be unique then. Make up your own unique
identifier, and use that.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis