Phil Shrimpton wrote:

> Because it has business meaning. If your client/boss tells you that
> the next update of WardrobeManager.exe should allow multiple shirts,
> you will need to do a lot of changes on your DB to allow it, if you
> used a generated key that has no business meaning, the change will be
> a lot easier

A lot of changes?

Drop PK & create index is the whole change.

Or maybe add a generated column, and create PK on it instead.

That's two changes on the table anyway. If you have developed an aplication
for updating your apps / dbases, this shouldn't be any problem.

Milan Babuskov
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