> On Mar 1, 2018, at 12:47 , Daevor The Devoted <dollien@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.