If I understand the problem correctly...and rekeying = updating integer primary keys so that they're internally consistent in "this" DB, but possibly no longer externally consistent in the master DB...
Best solution might be to change some/all primary keys to GUID's / UUID's. This should guarantee that they're always internally *and* externally consistent with no updating ever. "one's annual risk of being hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion,[34] that means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10-11), equivalent to the odds of creating a few tens of trillions of UUIDs in a year and having one duplicate. In other words, only after generating 1 billion UUIDs every second for the next 100 years, the probability of creating just one duplicate would be about 50%. The probability of one duplicate would be about 50% if every person on earth owns 600 million UUIDs." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Kevin Parker <[email protected]>wrote: > > I can't see an elegant solution to this but thought I'd pose the question > here in case someone has a better insight than me to this type of issue. > > Here's the business problem.... > > System Owner runs a web based system (CF8 and SQL Server 2005 on a shared > hosting platform). Their Client orders up an assessment for an Applicant > (via the web system) and the Applicant goes to the web based system to > complete the assessment. The system them notifies the System Owner (by > email) that an assessment has been done and they do some further work and > report back to the Client. > > As part of internal processes the System Owner rekeys a subset of the data > into their internal systems (mainly demographic data, not assessment data). > That triggers some internal activities as part of the assessment and also > triggers raising an invoice for the service. > > The internal system is not web facing and (they tell me) is MS Access > interfacing to SQL Lite. > > I'm trying to identify ways to reduce the level of rekeying here when an > assessment has been completed but I think without some major internal > changes or moving their internal system out to the web or elsewhere then it > will remain a manual operation. > > Thank you!!! > > ++++++++++ > Kevin Parker > m: 0418 815 527 > > ++++++++++ > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352068 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
