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Hi,

Is it a good practice to keep primary key as auto incremental or not.
Please reply ASAP as I want to design a database.

Thanks
Shubhangi
Sep 1 '06 #1
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Banfa
9,065 Expert Mod 8TB
yes as generally you want your primary keys to be unique
Sep 2 '06 #2
ramasp
19
It is a good practice to increment primary key column automatically. If the first row is null or 0 set to 1 else increment by using max(column) + 1
in the insert sp
Sep 4 '06 #3

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