A surrogate is, 'One appointed to act in place of another.' A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of ...

Using surrogate keys within a database is often considered a technique to improve performance. The assumption is that using anything other than a numeric data value to join tables provides 'bad' ...

Now, this app uses surrogate keys extensively (Django doesn't allow composite primary keys and encourages the use of surrogates heavily). For the first migration scripts I've tentatively skipped ...