At 09:00 2019-02-25, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:38 AM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:

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They are presumably being used as PKs for tables representing humans, no? Then the vast majority of potential records would have null values, since most humans are not citizens of the USA.

Ur either Muricans, or your not. ;)

Maybe. I was a "US person" for the purposes of having a certificate of deposit. It meant US citizen or entitled to work in the USA.

But seriously, there are some non-citizens with SSNs, and citizens, without. So, yeah, Matt's really sorry and promises not to do it again.

Someone should make up a list "Lies Programmers Believe About Identifying Numbers".

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko