Will you ever need to join this table to other tables? Do you need a way to uniquely identify a record? If the answer is yes, you need a primary key. Assume your data is something like a customer table that has the names of the people who are customers. There may be no natural key because you need the addresses, emails, phone numbers, etc. to determine if this Sally Smith is different from that Sally Smith and you will be storing that information in related tables as the person can have mulitple phones, addesses, emails, etc. Suppose Sally Smith marries John Jones and becomes Sally Jones. If you don't have an artifical key onthe table, when you update the name, you just changed 7 Sally Smiths to Sally Jones even though only one of them got married and changed her name. And of course in this case withouth an artificial key how do you know which Sally Smith lives in Chicago and which one lives in LA?

你说你没有自然的密钥，因此你也没有任何字段的组合来使其唯一，这使得人工密钥至关重要。

我发现，在没有天然密钥的情况下，人工密钥对于维护数据完整性是绝对必要的。如果您确实有一个自然键，您可以使用它作为键字段。但就我个人而言，除非自然键是一个字段，否则我仍然喜欢人工键和自然键上的唯一索引。如果你不放进去，你以后会后悔的。

几乎每次我创建一个没有主键的表时，我都认为我不需要主键，最终我会返回并添加一个主键。现在，我甚至用一个自动生成的标识字段作为主键来创建连接表。

我想找到一些官方的东西像这样- 15.6.2.1集群和次要索引- MySQL。

如果表没有PRIMARY KEY或合适的UNIQUE索引，InnoDB内部会在一个包含行ID值的合成列上生成一个名为GEN_CLUST_INDEX的隐藏聚集索引。行是根据InnoDB分配给这样一个表中的行的ID来排序的。行ID是一个6字节的字段，随着新行插入而单调增加。因此，按行ID排序的行在物理上按插入顺序排列。

为什么不自己创建主键呢?此外，ORM不能识别这个隐藏的ID，这意味着您不能在代码中使用ID。

我知道为了在。net中使用gridview的某些特性，你需要一个主键，以便gridview知道哪一行需要更新/删除。一般的做法应该是有一个主键或主键集群。我个人更倾向于前者。

除了少数非常罕见的情况(可能是多对多关系表，或者临时用于批量加载大量数据的表)，我会使用以下说法:

如果它没有主键，它就不是表!

Marc

Will you ever need to join this table to other tables? Do you need a way to uniquely identify a record? If the answer is yes, you need a primary key. Assume your data is something like a customer table that has the names of the people who are customers. There may be no natural key because you need the addresses, emails, phone numbers, etc. to determine if this Sally Smith is different from that Sally Smith and you will be storing that information in related tables as the person can have mulitple phones, addesses, emails, etc. Suppose Sally Smith marries John Jones and becomes Sally Jones. If you don't have an artifical key onthe table, when you update the name, you just changed 7 Sally Smiths to Sally Jones even though only one of them got married and changed her name. And of course in this case withouth an artificial key how do you know which Sally Smith lives in Chicago and which one lives in LA?

你说你没有自然的密钥，因此你也没有任何字段的组合来使其唯一，这使得人工密钥至关重要。

我发现，在没有天然密钥的情况下，人工密钥对于维护数据完整性是绝对必要的。如果您确实有一个自然键，您可以使用它作为键字段。但就我个人而言，除非自然键是一个字段，否则我仍然喜欢人工键和自然键上的唯一索引。如果你不放进去，你以后会后悔的。