Re: What's the most efficient primary key ?

worldonline wrote in message <9elo7s$sf2$1_at_nereid.worldonline.nl>...
>I want to create billions of unique key, wat's the best option?
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>a compound key containing several integer-columns,
>a large datatype (decimal)
>or a string perhaps ??
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>i would like the first options, it is good for using OID's
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