Normal Files, Normal Display

By Steven Parker

Posted September 10 2001

Summary: One of the basic concepts of normalization is that every record in a file or row in a SQL table should be uniquely identified. Steve Parker addresses two aspects of unique IDs: the generic motivation for using them, and the difficulties they can present when displayed to the end user.

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