I'm not sure if you are referring to my comments as disgraceful, or the original article? but I just wanted to make it clear that my comments were simply to...

My new database design:

Create table TheUltimateGenericSolution(

Key int not null identity primary key,

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From a Client OOP point of view UID's solve many problems for the programmer:

I work on systems where client software (usually VB.net) is responsible for creating new entities in the...

In my opinion the best solution to this problem by far is to pass an XML document from your VB client to the SP on the server: for example:

Then use...