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Re: Why non-keyed PFs back then? Why today? ( was Re: Which of the SYSIBMtables/views show the row count for )

Walden H. Leverich wrote:

I can't think of a reason I'd design a table today (on any platform)
that didn't include a primary key. If there is no pure business key,
make a surrogate key of an integer.

No disagreement from me. I just hoped to avoid side-threads that started arguing the merits of indexing a table that had a single column with names of months or some other trivial example.

Tom Liotta


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