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Must tuples of a relation and their referents be in a one-to-one relationship?
Figures 3.a and 3.b, section 1.4, page 381 of Edgar Codd’s 1970 landmark paper ‘A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks’ presents a set of relation schemas (unnormalized in figure 3.a ...
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Is "SET IDENTITY_INSERT" required to insert arbitrary GUID into [uniqueidentifier] column?
SQL Server 2016 and 2017, Standard Edition
I need to insert raw data (from another table) into a table that has two uniqueidentifier columns.
Does this require that I use SET IDENTITY_INSERT Carrier ...
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Identity Columns or UDF that explicitly generates a unique id?
I am in middle of a debate about whether it is better to make a PRIMARY KEY out of an Identity Columns, our out of a UDF that explicitly generates a unique id.
I am arguing for the Identity Column.
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