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What's the most efficient primary key ?

From: worldonline <remco.van.toor_at_iquality.nl>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:24:34 +0200
Message-ID: <9elo7s$sf2$1@nereid.worldonline.nl> 






I want to create billions of unique key, wat's the best option?



a compound key containing several integer-columns,
a large datatype (decimal)


or a string perhaps ??



i would like the first options, it is good for using OID's




thanks in advance,


remco
Received on Fri May 25 2001 - 08:24:34 CDT












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