Identity Column Primary Key Vs Custom Key

May 22, 2008

We are developing a batabase which is meant for financial domain,so it will import data from different source system..
and data from our data base will be further passed to other applications.

In contex of our system integration with other data sources ,whether is it a good idea to have a auto integer primary key a or to implement some logic to generate primary key?

Can some one guide us to some pratical data base design case studies?or some best practices.?

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Primary Key Vs Identity Column

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What is the different between Primary key and Identity Column? and when should I them?
(Im just a beginner with databases...)

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Not sure where to post this as it may be a form operation but here goes...I want to generate a custom unique identifier for a table similar to the Northwind Customers database (ie ALFKI, ANTON, etc...) which can be used as a descriptive identifier as well.  For example, I have a Products table and I want to have my keys look like: CHR-0001-05."CHR" is my abbreviation for Chairs"0001" is the auto-incrementing number (in this case the first record of the table)"05" is the last 2 digits of the year recieved (2005)Can somebody please point me in the right direction?  I'm having problems finding resources on the web relating to this topic (prolly not using the correct keywords for my searches)Cheers =)

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Hello everyone!

Even though I am not "new to SQL Server", my experience in working with it has ebbed and flowed, and working with SQL Server is not something that happens for me even on a monthly basis.

I work as an in-house programmer for a financial investment company and I have been asked to work on a database that is to hold financial data.

One of the requirements for the tables has been that the Primary Key should be [name_of_the_table] + [Identity].

So, for example, for table "tblEquities", the values of the Primary Key would be:

PK
-------
tblEquities1
tblEquities2
tblEquities3
tblEquities4
tblEquities5


My questions are:
1) Is it possible to achieve this by using just one column, as in defining a formula for the "Computed Column Specification" , something that would look like "'tblEquities' + Identity()"?
2) If the above is not possible, I assume it's much easier to just define a column as being Identity column and then create a 2nd computed column that would aggregate the name of the table with the value in the Identity column, so that I end up with a column holding the desired values? (I guess it would look something like
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Also, I have been asked to find out what SQL 2005 have/offers, in term of guaranteeing referential integrity. Are the "Database Diagram", as well as the "Relationships" dialog box, the tools that would meet that criteria or does SQL 2005 contain other tools that would help in this regard?

Thank you!

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Dim myCommand As New SqlDataAdapter(SelectCommand, myConnection)

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recordCount -= 1
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I have the following issue
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WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:20'

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COMMIT TRAN

I really want to do this in the reverse order but it doesn't work. But if I do this and have another query to just do a select:

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We will use Merge replication.



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On Server 1 - Values start from 1 then 2,3,4 etc etc



Server 2 - 24001, 24002, 24003 etc etc



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Server 4 - 68001, 68002, 68003



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Hi all!

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== Customers table ==
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== Orders table ==
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== OrderDetails table (1 to Many) ==
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