Posted by David Portas on 03/12/06 00:10

Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> That is about as useful as saying "this is a good car, but you should
> not drive it at night". If databases would only include data that
> have natural keys, there wouldn't be much data in them.
>

You said "data" so you could be right. If you'd said "information"
you'd be wrong. Here's an analogy. If I have two copies of "Inside SQL
Server" on my bookshelf do I have more information than if I have one
copy of that book? Now if I write 1 on the cover of the first book and
2 on the cover of the second, do I have any more information? So should
I spend money and storage space on two books or one? The smart money is
invested in information not in data.

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