Eric Webb » databases http://ericcwebb.com Work, life, and everything else... Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:01:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Database design – Primary Keys http://ericcwebb.com/2007/12/10/database-design-primary-keys/ http://ericcwebb.com/2007/12/10/database-design-primary-keys/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:59:30 +0000 Eric Webb http://ericcwebb.com/2007/12/10/database-design-primary-keys/ This is an interesting article on the selection of a primary key during database design: http://rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-case-youre-new-to-series-ive.html.

I’ve always wondered what the best primary key was and while there are pros and cons for both natural and surrogate keys, it seems that surrogate keys are the way to go.

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