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by th3byrdm4n 747 days ago
When I integrate systems, I use that system's natural key (love it when it's a unique ID, but in the systems I work in - it almost never is).

That said, I use that natural key as the "link" to my internally managed, normalized database.

There's nothing that says I cannot add unique identifiers that would replicate the natural key. In fact, that's good design.