Mr. Little tries to "debunk" the ideas that numeric artificial keys is a good idea. Now, if it had been a "INT vs. GUID vs. String" discussion, that would have been interesting.
Instead, he claims that using artificial keys period is seldom needed and causes undue complexity.
I already posted by near-flame in the feedback to that article. I'm just a little worried that it got linked on the front of this site and so many novice users might see it and take his word for it.
rponton
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Mythbuster: Normalizing with Integers is Always Best
Aug 09, 2005 11:19 PM|LINK
http://aspalliance.com/460
Mr. Little tries to "debunk" the ideas that numeric artificial keys is a good idea. Now, if it had been a "INT vs. GUID vs. String" discussion, that would have been interesting.
Instead, he claims that using artificial keys period is seldom needed and causes undue complexity.
I already posted by near-flame in the feedback to that article. I'm just a little worried that it got linked on the front of this site and so many novice users might see it and take his word for it.