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> Can you think of any good use case for a non-arbitrary primary key? Login names; Vehicle registration numbers; flight numbers; domain names; file names; ip addresses. Keys are us…

The article mentions auto-incrementing keys, not surrogates. Not the same thing at all. Not all incrementing keys are surrogates and not all surrogates are incrementing keys. Also,…

I'm a Protonmail user. E2E isn't snake oil but it does assume you have an alternative secure channel for password exchange. I like the fact that my mail archive is encrypted even t…

> the correct solution is to use a constraint to enforce the uniqueness That would of course be correct for a natural key. It seems that you too recommend using natural keys and I …