All my years of database programming, I had worked directly with RDBMS. This new switch over to .Net and dealing with ROM seems to require new strategy in some areas.



I had always maintained the primary key value, using an Integer field and maintained the incremental myself regardless which database engine I was using. This way I could switch DB and things would be the same.



My question is, to have unique Primary keys, can I still use the same techniques as I have before or are there other approaches that would be better when working in Object Relational Mapping environment? Perhaps I've missed it in docs, is there a pattern in SF that I should follow to maintain a safe position, especially when linking to other tables?



Thank you in advance!


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