At 08:57 23.02.2001 +0200, Gerhardus wrote:

>However I have no idea what surrogate keys are. Unique ID's
>well the name tells it all. I also presume that unique ID's
>are char fields or can it be integers ?

Surrogate keys are generally integers calculated from generators, which
have no meaning except being unique and used in relationships. Normally you
wouldn't show these values to your users (if you are a programmer, they are
of course visible in the database). In IBO you generally assign
GeneratorLinks, whereas IBX/BDE assign the values in a BEFORE INSERT
trigger (I think).

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