Good morning!

On 14.7.2010, at 17:32, Chuck Hill wrote:

> User.  Modifiable.  PK.  WTF?!!?  Icelandic banking systems?  :-P

I wish - unfortunately it's the Icelandic Vehicle Registry, meaning *I* have to 
fix this :).


>> For legacy reasons, I can't ditch the old PKs entirely in favor of new ones 
>> - which also sucks.
> 
> Are the users still going to be modifying them?  How did they handle that?  
> Update all the FKs in the same transaction?

Yes, they will continue to be modified, and yes, that's how it's handled today. 
For example, the date a vehicle is inspected is part of the PK. Update that 
date, and you'll have to update about a billion FKs.


> Run away?

Yes. Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking… :)

- hugi

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