Forum Post: RE: composite foreign keys

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well because it isn't :) According to the theory you hold for true. And that truth may not be the absolute. that order number is seen by the user, client, accountants and IRS so it does have a meaning Does that mean that when you decide to show another autonumber in another table to a user the key automatically changes from surrogate to natural? On the other hand the theory I read states that a system-generated key is a surrogate. And we're talking about a system-generated ordernumber. There are of course humans too of which the gender is not clear. If that's more clear. ;-)

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