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September 26th, 2005, 05:30 PM
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wrote in message oups.com... Roger Carlson wrote: Autonumber fields make excellent Primary Keys. You've misunderstood what PRIMARY KEY means. An unique integer which has no meaning in respect fo the entities being modelled makes a lousy PRIMARY KEY. Google for "clustered index" in the Access groups. An autonumber is a convenient uniqueifier but unquieness for its own sake make not be such a good thing. 
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