Updated DDL for SQL backend
Benoit Gregoire
bock at step.polymtl.ca
Thu Oct 26 23:34:51 EDT 2006
On Thursday 26 October 2006 22:43, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> 3) All object ids are (or should be) GUIDs. A GUID is represented by a
> set of 4 int fields. I use this instead of varbinary because it isn't
> variable length. I don't use any text type because I don't want any
> issues with 0x00 as a char in a GUID.
Fair enough, it's fixed length. But it will make for really ugly SQL for
JOINS, with the only benefit of saving four bytes. I think using a varbinary
is much preferable (and just as portable).
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