| Posted by --CELKO-- on 03/03/06 02:53 
Read Dr. Codd or anyone else in RDBMS.  Apparently none of the newbiestoday do.
 
 A key is **by definition** a subset of attributes of an entity.  The
 proprietary IDENTITY is an exposed physical locator derived from the
 internal state of the hardware used to store that data.  Or, to put it
 another way, go to the real world that you are modeling and show me
 where God put an IDENTITY number on the entities.
 
 You have no way to validate or verify an IDENTITY because it is exposed
 physical locator.  It is a replacement for a SEQUENTIAL FILE record
 number.  It is totally non-relational.
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