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Re: Is the use of VARCHAR(256) as Primary Keys preferred in Oracle?

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 05:19:08 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns92C9E30A8320Apingottpingottbah@209.242.64.107>


"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_attbi.com> wrote in news:_8_B9.72294$QZ.11701 @sccrnsc02:

> That may be, but in either case it would be rather unusual to have a
> 256 byte key.

Ooops, I hope no one else mis-reads my post to think that I'm in support of a 256 byte key -- I'm not!

My apologies for any confusion.

thx!

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com
Received on Sun Nov 17 2002 - 23:19:08 CST

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