Our DB is Oracle.  Would this be the case for this situation?  I'd
love for the answer to be yes.

On Mar 16, 12:07 pm, John Davidson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Natural keys on some databases require a full table scan for retrieval,
> meaning that indexes are not used, resulting in slower performance on data
> retrieval. Just putting a natural key with 3 or more columns in a table may
> result in significantly reduced performance.
>
> John Davidson
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:01 PM, José F. Romaniello
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > just in case you didn't see this before:
> >http://www.agiledata.org/essays/keys.html
>
> > 2010/3/16 Corey Coogan <[email protected]>
>
> > I'm trying to get my client to implement surrogate keys on their legacy
> >> database to make using an ORM more viable, among other reasons.  I drafted 
> >> a
> >> quick document discussing the points and weighing surrogate keys against
> >> natural keys.
>
> >> I'm hoping to get some feedback and comments on what's missing, inaccurate
> >> or should be removed.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Corey
>
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