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Old 01-11-10, 20:11
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Originally Posted by Anna-J View Post
Doesn't a surrogate key save a lot of work for the RDBMS, in cases where updating the natural key would cause cascade updates of a lot of dependent rows? Or is this performance issue negligible in practical use, given that you rarely udate a primary key?
This in itself is a very minor issue, and not enough of a reason on its own to prefer surrogate keys to natural keys.
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