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I'm not sure that's even the case.

Is there any rule that prevent Canadian SS# from duplicating a US one?

Charles

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Elvis Budimlic
unless he takes the step he mentioned of normalizing the formats
into a separate field and building an index over it.

I'm not sure "normalizing" is the right term - as one other poster pointed out, simple numeric values may not be unique. If I understand correctly the placement of the "-" characters are what make the key unique.

Nathan.



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