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Why are unique identifiers important in databases?
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"A unique identifier distinguishes one record from all other records. Applications use these identifiers to retrieve exact records and create reliable relationships between stored entities. Stable IDs prevent ambiguity when names or other human-readable values are duplicated or changed."
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