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Don't forget about composite primary keys -- many programmers do!
When you define more than one column as your primary key on a table, it is called a composite primary key. And many experienced and otherwise talented database programmers have never used them and may not even be aware of them! Yet, composite primary keys are very important when designing a good, ...
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Composite keys are evil
Composite keys (multi column primary keys) make any kind of Object/Relational mapping and persistence in general harder. Life is so much easier with surrogate keys. You can always make unique constraints where it's necessary.