Timeline for Is it good practice to always have an autoincrement integer primary key?
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| Sep 25, 2016 at 17:11 | comment | added | rahul tyagi | there are no two primary keys , there is only one primary key and all rest are called candidate keys if they can serve as primary keys too.. | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 19:58 | comment | added | AnoE | Well, that was just a small point; the main part is that a running ID is not appropriate for every table, thus getting used to just slapping an auto-ID on every single table might not be the wisest. | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 17:53 | comment | added | Brad | (Not an Oracle user so forgive the question but) doesn't Oracle use Sequence in the same way others use Autoincrement/Identity? Is saying that Oracle doesn't have an Autoincrement data type really just a sematic argument? | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 14:20 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 56 characters in body |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 11:08 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1 character in body |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 9:52 | history | answered | AnoE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |