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Data Modelling: The Power of QUACKs and UIDs
Codes are Not Identifiers In my previous post on how unique keys cause duplication in databases I demonstrated that codes are not identifiers for data entities and, by extension, they cannot be unique identifiers (UIDs). Why Do People Use Codes? … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Entities, Duplication, Identifiers, QUACK, UID
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Unique Keys are the Primary Cause of Duplication in Databases
It is perhaps the greatest paradox of data quality that the PRIMARY cause of duplication of entries in any database is the mistaken use of unique keys as the Unique Identifiers UIDs) of records.
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Tagged #MDM, Data, DataQuality, UID, unique keys
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