Databasen - Revisited

[Andy Armstrong]

On 18 Oct 2006, at 18:08, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> Wouldn't it make sense to have the month name as the primary key?  
> (Since you
> want it to be unique anyway, don't you?)

Without seeing more of the wider problem it's impossible to say for  
sure - but it's quite likely that the reason for the existence of the  
table is to abstract the concept of a month away from its English  
name. Of course you could argue that you could set up a bunch of  
triggers to propagate changes to the value of the PK - but on the  
whole I'd prefer just to have an abstract PK.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net