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Unique Identifier (UID) - Unique identifiers enable us to answer the question; "what is it, with respect to this business, that makes one occurrence of a data entity uniquely different from every other occurrence of that data entity?" If we know this then we will have the unique identifier for that data entity.
John Owens, 01 September 2009 08:43:18, www.integrated-modeling- method.com/data-modeling/unique-keys-are-the-primary-cause-of-duplication-in-databases
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