mindapolis Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 I'm setting up a customer database table. Could I use a compound primary key with the first name and last name or should I have an autoincrement field? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249405-setting-up-a-database/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Set the auto_increment field. Mainly because firstname and lastname are not always unique. Look at how many John Smith's there are in the world! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249405-setting-up-a-database/#findComment-1280574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindapolis Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 Good point Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249405-setting-up-a-database/#findComment-1280579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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