On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Lew <noone@lwsc.ehost-services.com> wrote:
> Philippe Lang wrote:
>>
>> I think nobody mentioned Object-Relational mappers.
>> If you intend to used one (or think you may be using one in the future),
>> using surrogate keys is more straightforward, if not necessary.
>
> Neither of those claims is even slightly true. Using Hibernate, EclipseLink
> or OpenJPA (for Java applications), natural keys are sufficient and far more
> straightforward than surrogate keys.
right -- to be fair though is quite a bit of (generally bad) software
out there that assumes or at least heavily encourages surrogate keys.
merlin