GUID Factory

[Jean-David Beyer]

David Merrill wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:49:02PM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> > Christopher Browne wrote (in part):
> > >
> > > This is something that is indeed appropriately generated in the "engine,"
> > > not in the DB; the relevance to the DB is to ask whether it can use the
> > > GUID as one of its keys, and whether or not the DB supports foreign keys.
> >
> > What is this "foreign key" stuff? [snip]
> >
> > Whether you consider that field to be a foreign key or not depends on
> > whether or not it is the primary key of another table, relation, or
> > whatever you want to call it. Even then, you would not need to declare
> > it to be a foreigh key unless you want to enforce the relationship
> > between the two tables (which you probably should).
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
> 
> Just that the primary place a GUID is used is as a primary key, and
> foreign keys in those tables' child tables.
> 
So of course an rdbms would support foreign keys, and this is a
non-issue, right?
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