On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Mike Nolan wrote:
> I personally believe that there is value in a database-generated unique
> value like Oracle's ROWID. (Part of what I like about it is that since
> it is a system column it simplifies some application issues, since the
> app never has to worry about that column unless it chooses to.)
If an application needs a column called oid in each table it could very
well just define the tables like that. You could also make a script that
checks all tables and make sure there is a oid if you want to.
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/Dennis Björklund