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RE/ >Please, share your experience in using IDENTITY as PK . One advantage I see with using IDENTITY PKs (or any blind, dumb number...) is that I'm protected against my own lack of knowledge. For instance: I'd guess it's pretty easy to set up a "People" database on the assumption that social security numbers are unique. The long and short of it is that they're not. I almost made that mistake once, but my habit of using surrogate keys whenever possible saved me from getting egg on my face when the project was about 95% complete. -- PeteCresswell
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