Athletic Award Database Surrogate Key Policy for Stable Record IDs
Intent: research — an athletic award database surrogate key policy defines the rules for assigning, protecting, and maintaining system-generated record identifiers for athletic recognition entries. A surrogate key is a stable, system-generated ID — a sequential integer or UUID — assigned at the moment a record is created and never derived from athlete names, season labels, or award titles. Because surrogate keys carry no real-world meaning, they remain unchanged when any descriptive field is later corrected: an athlete’s name can be updated, an award title can be renamed after a program rebrand, and a season format can be standardized without breaking display links, cross-system references, or correction log entries tied to the original record.
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