[AccessD] Primary Key Best Practices

While I agree with you  on the subject matter at hand - I don't recall
seeing this as criteria for a primary key before. Is this a Colbyism or am I
just not quite awake yet?

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
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2) Has no meaning.  From the perspective of the CHILD record, the FK is
nothing more than a pointer back to the parent record.  As such it should be
a behind the scenes, never directly viewed artificial construct designed to
do its job as efficiently as possible.