Negative Primary Keys

Question

Are there any repercussions using Negative Primary Keys for tables (Identity Increment -1, Identity Seed -1 in SQL Server 2005)?

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Answer 1

You'll want to review legacy code and look for where developers have sorted on primary key as a lazy/sloppy way of sorting by date (because identity pk's usually are strongly or perfectly correlated to time).