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> Conceptually, any information created or consumed outside your organization is not valid as part of a surrogate key, so SSNs are not a surrogate key.

SSNs are created within the organization. Maybe not within your organization, but nobody is talking about you. They are a surrogate key.



SSN = social security number. What else does SSN stand for?




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