Re: Enforce primary key on every table during dev?

On 03/01/2018 01:03 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

On 03/01/2018 02:32 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:

There's always the "account number", which is usually synthetic. Credit Card numbers are also synthetic. 

Actually, no:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_card_number

There is a method to the madness, not just random issuance of numbers. It was made it relatively easy for folks to generate numbers. Hence the addition of CSC codes.

Right.  And how do the issuers generate the individual account identifier within their IIN ranges?

ICD numbers are (relatively)

synthetic, too.

But that doesn't mean we have to use them willy-nilly everywhere.