Relational Databases: Where Are My Primary Keys?
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Speaker Ami Levin of SolidQ
Join SQL Server guru Ami Levin as he revisits some of the fundamental design principles of relational databases: normalization rules, key selection, and the controversies associated with these issues from a practical perspective.http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/c/e/0/event_279948352.jpeg
Ami will discuss the benefits and challenges of using different types of keys - natural, surrogates, artificial, and others.
Each key offers benefits from multiple aspects: data consistency, application development, maintenance, portability and performance.
Get ready for some surprising demonstrations…
Ami Levin is a Microsoft
MVP and a consultant with SolidQ. Last fall he moved to California from http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/1/0/0/event_271884832.jpegIsrael, where he led the Israeli SQL Server User Group.Ami is a regular speaker at Microsoft Tech-Ed Israel, Dev Academy, and other SQL Server conferences and blogs at SQL Server Tuning Blog. (http://www.dbsophic.com/SQL-Server-Tuning-Blog/Latest.html)
Relational Databases: Where Are My Primary Keys?