Ideas in this flowchart

• Unique identifiers distinguish records and support reliable relationships.
• A unique identifier identifies one record.
• The identifier distinguishes that record.
• It distinguishes the record from all other records.
• Applications use these identifiers.
• Applications use identifiers to retrieve records.
• The identifiers help retrieve exact records.
• Applications create relationships.
• The relationships connect stored entities.
• The relationships are reliable.
• Stable IDs support record identification.
• Stable IDs prevent ambiguity.
• Names may be duplicated.
• Other human-readable values may be duplicated.
• Names may be changed.
• Other human-readable values may be changed.