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| 4 | PC AR3 | SPCom Inc. | 1200.00 | 2 year |
| 4 | PC AR3 | SPCom Inc. | 1300.00 | 3 year |
| 4 | PC AR4 | SPCom Inc. | 1400.00 | 4 year |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
From My Server Side Application (C code)
I can Update my Rows using my RowID.
Example : "UPDATE TABLE product SET Price="2000.00" WHERE RowID="3"";
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Yes, but if you use RowID 4 you'll be updating multiple rows....
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But For My Client Side Applications :
I know there are ways to bypass this problem, but it involves much more
coding in my Delphi applications
on my Client side.
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So?
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So my question is, Is there a way to hide a field from select statements.
Of course, if my user wrote "SELECT RowId, Name, Company, Price, Warranty
FROM product"
he would get the RowId in his query output.
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Does the user know all of the columns? If so, and he chose to see them that would be his
choice, no?
Really, it is just bad database design. Each row should have a unique identifier. What is
the big deal about the user seeing the RowID?
