At 08:57 AM 3/6/2006, tedd wrote:
What I find interesting in all of this exchange -- however -- is
that everyone agree's renumbering the "id" of a dB is something you
don't do, but no one can come up with a concrete (other than
relational) reason why.
It's simply -- concretely -- inefficient & inelegant to modify on
average half the records in a database simply in order to delete one
record, when queries give us fast, simple, READ-ONLY methods for
enumerating existing data.
Regards,
Paul
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