Joe I certainly understand your position but I do have a question. You continually refer to Cindy Lou Who as employee #42. In a Joe Celko database what would be used for the primary key in this table?

You can't use SSN. That would be a reasonable choice at first glance but there are two MAJOR flaws with that. First of all, SSN have and will be reused. When people die their SSN gets recycled into the available pool. Secondly, and probably far more important, is that SSN is sensitive information. Anytime you have SSN in your database it should be in one and only one location and it should be encrypted at rest. This pretty much rules out SSN as a valid primary key. What else is there? Name certainly doesn't do it.