On Tuesday 12 June 2001 13:19, Jared Still wrote:
> The only real downfall of surrogate keys is that it may require a developer
> to do a join on the FK to the parent table to get the unique key
> information.
Well, there are other downfalls on a system with a high transaction rate,
but there are ways to deal with them.
Jonatha Lewis' book 'Practical Oracle 8i' has several suggestions.
Jared
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