On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Rob Sargent wrote:
> Is this "invoice_number" just an id or what might appear an a bill (in
> some pretty form etc)?
It will appear on actual invoices, as part of a compound invoice identifier (like ABCD-0042, where ABCD is an
identifierfor the account in question and 42 is the invoice number).
> If the former, just get a unique id over all invoices. At the very
> least it will save time i) in writing where clauses ii) re-creating the
> correct id once some one assigns an invoice to the wrong customer.
There will be such an ID, but I do not want to show it directly to users. I want an invoice number independent of
whateversurrogate key the database happens to use to uniquely identify rows.
(Sorry if you receive this twice, Rob. I accidentally replied to you instead of the list the first time.)
