[AccessD] Primary Key Best Practices

On 7/26/07, Heenan, Lambert <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com> wrote:
> I do whish this thread would come to an end. It seem to be just fodder for
> the personality contestants.
>
> "How can you defend your position by stating on a DATABASE development list
> that your arguments are from a user prospective?" - because this is an
> ACCESS database development list, and as far as SQL server goes, we are
> users (unless like John you have a server farm in the back room and are
> running the whole show single handed).
>
> Ok. So Charlotte initially said "you cannot do X", and then John pounced and
> said "yes you can".
>
> Big deal. Charlotte did not explicitly specify "In Access", and John in his
> rebuttal kinda sorta forgot to explicitly mention he was working inside SQL
> server. Big deal again.
>
> I repeat, this is an Access developer list. We should be talking about what
> you can and can't do in Access (which is what Charlotte did). Ok. Compare
> and contrast with other RDBMS, but do we really need dozens of "she said /
> he said" messages on a somewhat tired topic?
>
> Please deep six it.

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