Bear Bibeault wrote:That said, a sequence is guaranteed to give the next consecutive value from its own counter.
Bear Bibeault wrote:But the question remains, why is the actual value of the primary key important? it shouldn't be.
Bear Bibeault wrote:A primary key should not be used for anything, including ordering. It should be a meaningless unique values whose only purpose is to identify a single record.
Consider Paul's rocket mass heater. |