Table keys in fusion

Our organization has plans on using fusion. Can anyone tell me if the tables in fusion utilize surrogate primary keys rather than 'intelligent' keys? Thanks.

I am not an Oracle employee so I suppose I can get away with this: Oracle Apps (the database bedrock of the Fusion architecture) is a legacy application which has evolved over decades. It has thousands of tables. I'm not sure I would want to use it as a template for designing smaller databases.
The argument between natural and synthetic (or surrogate keys) is frequently a religious one. I have changed sides a couple of times over the years. Bear in mind that we are only talking about this when it comes to answering the question, "what key do I reference in a foreign key?" candidate keys must be enforced on the parent table.
Natural keys
- rigourous basis in relational theory
- search child records on key columns without necessarily joining to parent
Synthetic keys
- fewer columns on join table hence less typing in joins
- also less space used
- allows us to change the columns and/or values of the primary key on the parent table
As can be seen the advantages of synthetic keys are pragmatic. According to theory the primary keys are always identified correctly at the off and the values never change over the life cycle of an entity. In practice these changes do occur; maybe not as often as some people claim but it does happen. This is why Oracle veterans tend to end up in the synthetic key camp (although some of us do feel vaguely guilty about it).
Cheers, APC

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