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  • January 31, 2018 at 8:14 am

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    drew.allen - Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:37 AM

    K. Brian Kelley - Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:21 AM

    Another idea for a PK is a composite key (two columns) consisting of the year + the day of the year. There are some uses for this.

    I would just use the date itself.  It's only a single field instead of being a composite key.  It's more human readable.  I could see having an index on year/day of the year, but I would not make it the PK.

    Drew

    +1000 to that.

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