On 08/24/2015 07:58 AM, John Turner wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:15:27 -0400, Ray Cote
>
> Point 9 is well-intentioned, but perhaps needs to be
> clarified/rephrased: Developers should not be creating production-grade
> tables devoid of well-defined business keys, period. That would be
> regardless of whether they're used as de facto primary keys or simply as
> unique keys.
Although I appreciate your argument, I think we need a little foundation
in reality. The "serial" key is the default primary key amongst every
single web development environment in existence.
We can make an argument within the doc to why that can be bad, but to
state that it is "wrong" is just not going to get you anywhere.
JD
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