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GUIDS or Integers for primary keys?
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17/04/2001 09:22:24
Guy Pardoe
Pardoe Development Corporation
Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
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00496066
Message ID:
00496068
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Hi Russell,

A big argument for integers is performance.

In a web based app, I would assume that you're not passing big recordsets. Therefore, performance might notbe such an issue.

GUIDs may be beneficial if you're going to be doing replication.

Guy


>What are the Pros and Cons of using GUIDs vs Integers for Primary Keys on a Web based application
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