Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] flippancy - What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 22nd November 2007 09:21

On 22 Nov 2007 09:59:14 -0000, Graham Stark wrote
> "But relying on these as the main tools to describe the
> relationships in a database causes lots of people lots of problems -
> especially unique incrementing IDs as primary keys."

Can you give an example of a problem caused by auto ints as I'm not sure
what you are getting at here?

> It's also the single main problem with the persistence model in Ruby
> On Rails, which is where we came in. Look at item one on this list, for
> example:
>
> http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.309321.3

Item one on that list speaks of the relational model being represented in
the business layer, it doesn't speak of problems of using auto ints as a
primary key in the database.

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