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ericHosick on Jan 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: PUT or POST: The REST of the Story

It is a bad idea to use anything entered by a user as the primary key.

It is ok to use data entered by users to assure the uniqueness of a record (unique indexes/constraints).

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