Should I obscure primary key values?

Question

I\'m building a web application where the front end is a highly-specialized search engine. Searching is handled at the main URL, and the user is passed off to a sub-directory wh

Answer 1

When I need a query string parameter to be able to identify a single row in a column, I normally add a GUID column to that table, and then pass the GUID in the connection string instead of the row's primary key value.