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What is dis-advantages of auto-increment pk

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Re: What is dis-advantages of auto-increment pk

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Jul 10th, 2008
EERM = Extended Entity Relationship Model

I would say auto increment column as if you want to keep track of next item number to be used you need to run extra query to get current number. Plus there are other thing you would have to take care from coding point of view

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