[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: DB is not enforcing index uniqueness

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Agreed, maybe there is a more appropriate word for this and believe it or not the same thing happens in Oracle but my feelings were the same there too... all this 'relative' uniques looks just suspicious to me. I don't like surrogate keys much unless no natural key exists, adding one just to get along this 'whatever reason' situation seems just wrong. Anyway, most of the uniques indexes I've found in OE applications have non mandatory fields and this was most of the time just bad design :( Marian Edu Acorn IT www.acorn-it.com www.akera.io +40 740 036 212

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