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Defing Primary key [message #90475] Tue, 11 November 2003 04:04 Go to next message
Pradeep
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Registered: July 2000
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Is it better to have 3 composite key to be the PK in a table or add one more colum field which is a PK.
like a sequence no.

My all 3 composite key are Foreign keys of different table
Re: Defing Primary key [message #90476 is a reply to message #90475] Tue, 11 November 2003 05:29 Go to previous message
Daljit Singh
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Registered: October 2003
Location: Texas
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Hi,

Well this question is totally based on the queries which u r abt to fire against ur DB. if ur three keys alway appear in the where clause with proper seq then composite PK will work properly, but if u use only some or one of the column in where clause then u have to define diff PK to use indexes.

Remember that in composite PK the first column appear in ur PK must be there in ur where clause to use indexes.
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