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Re: unique ID

From: LineVoltageHalogen <tropicalfruitdrops_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 8 Dec 2004 13:33:14 -0800
Message-ID: <1102541594.528808.253130@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 





Guid's should not be used as a unique id.  Oracle stores these objects
as varbinary datatypes, PL/SQL always does an implicit conversion of
varbinary to varchar2 thus negating any helpful benefits of indexing.
A sequence is a better option.
Received on Wed Dec 08 2004 - 15:33:14 CST












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