> On Mar 1, 2018, at 12:47 , Daevor The Devoted <doll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I was always of the opinion that a mandatory surrogate key (as you describe) 
> is good practice.
> Sure there may be a unique key according to business logic (which may be 
> consist of those

> "ungainly" multiple columns), but guess what, business logic changes, and 
> then you're screwed!


> So using a primary key whose sole purpose is to be a primary key makes 
> perfect sense to me.

I did not get your point.  Can you explain why a change of business logic makes 
it difficult to change existing 
rows with surrogate key.

thanks.

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