>>Good morning friends,
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>>I need to change the candidate key of several tables from one field to an expression of two fields. Example: Now the candidate key is field MY_ID, C, 20. After the change the candidate key will be MY_ID + STR(MY_INT_FLD,6).
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>>Is there a better approach than to convert the Integer field to string using STR() function? Also, am I going to run into any problems with having candidate as an expression?
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>>Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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>You can use BINTOC() function to convert integer to a string. You may have a composite candidate key, if needed.
I have not used BINTOC() before. What would be advantage(s) of using it instead of STR()?
Thank you.
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