Re: Trend towards artificial keys (GUIDs) sez my textbook...is AI next?

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:37:16 -0800 (PST), raylopez99 wrote:

My beginner's book on RDBMS theory by Louis Davidson (APress) says
that there's a trend towards using GUIDs (artificial keys) as
computing power increases.

Hi Ray,

If this is the book I think it is (Pro SQL Server 2005 yadda yadda),
then please do me -or rather yourself- a favor and stop trying to learn
database theory from it. There are a lot of things that Louis and I
agree on, but database theory is definitely not among them. Parts of his
book are useful, the art is figuring out which parts.

Best, Hugo
.