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Natural IDs in Your Database. I Am Telling You for the Last Time!

This is Mikhail Polivakha, tech lead of the Axelix project (btw, give us a star!). Say I have a column that lets me explicitly identify a record, should I use it as the Primary Key?

Natural IDs in Your Database. I Am Telling You for the Last Time!

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This is Mikhail Polivakha, tech lead of the Axelix project (btw, give us a star!).

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