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Asked: 2026-06-15T17:11:50+00:00

My case is, I have some tables from prev developers, contain id and name

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My case is, I have some tables from prev developers, contain id and name. The id is not auto-increment (the value is something like A0001) and also CHANGEABLE. I’ve no idea, why or what reason behind this changeable-ID.

I just wonder what if a table have 2 IDs? I consider to make the current id, as just ‘unique code’ and add 1 more field, called id, the-auto-increment-and-fix one. So, I need some considerations about this thought. I still feel ‘weird’ about having 2 ids inside a table >.<

Thank you in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You probably have to drop the idea that the existing ‘id’ is the id, but rather a label. Now you can add a real autoincrementing ‘id’ and use this to identity the tuples in the table.

    I would keep the ‘label’ unique however.

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