The biggest problem with "natural" keys, as referenced in the article: they have a nasty habit of changing .

The biggest problem with "natural" keys, as referenced in the article: they have a nasty habit of changing . In the article's example, making "username" or "email" the PK is going to be messy if you have foreign keys referencing the value when it updates.

Posted by al2o3cr on May 22, 2014, 2:21 PM

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