On Jul 21, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Siah wrote:
Designing my application, I was wondering if having my primary keys
(to be indexed) with VARCHAR brings performance down significantly? My
own test didn't show much difference. Thinking about it though, I'd
guess Integer Indexing should be much quicker and efficient.
Generally, anything dealing with a text/varchar field is going to be
slower than on, say, an integer. But remember the first rule of
performance tuning: don't. Do you *really* need to worry about the
extra overhead of varchar vs int? Probably not.
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