Re: Database Design Problem...

Posted in 1998

Joel Garry — 12 Mar 1998 16:21:24 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <6e2q8k$hqk$3@news00.btx.dtag.de>, Matthias Gresz <GreMa@t-online.de> wrote: >On 10 Mar 1998 04:39:06 GMT, "Birdman" <fanjun@writeme.com> wrote: >Hi, > >what's about a so common book as the 'Holy Bible'? Ther may be a catholique revision an Amish revison and so on. How to distinguish these books other than by an artificial unique key. to use a key >that has something to do with the books or the book market hat's about the ISBN as primary key? Don't now how ISBN's handle revisions. They are supposed to be unique, but sometimes aren't. -- These opinions are my own and not necessarily those of Information Quest jgarry@eiq.com http://www.informationquest.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/joel_garry "See your DBA?" I AM the @#%*& DBA!