There are many many opinions out there regarding the old surrogate key vs. natural key debate. Most of the times, surrogate keys (e.g. sequence generated IDs) win because they're much easier to design: They're easy to keep consistent across a schema (e.g. every table has an ID column, and that's always the primary key)They're thus … Continue reading Faster SQL Through Occasionally Choosing Natural Keys Over Surrogate Keys
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