On May 2, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Rob Sargent wrote:

> ...and you're at risk of having to reformat them when you buy out your competitor.

The scheme described was awfully similar to one that a client of mine used, product family prefix, identifiers within the family. And guess what? The scheme, which had been stable for 20+ years, had to change when a new variant of product was introduced which cut across family & product. I don't remember the details. I do remember that I hadn't used the supposedly stable product ids as PKs ;-)

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