Hi,

I found that GUID is a beautifull candidate for OID; the point is that its a
string. How much I loose in performance if I use a string primary-key
instead of a numeric one ?

Thank you,
Guillermo

""Leyne, Sean"" <sleyne@...> wrote in message
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> OIDs???
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guillermo Najar-Arreola [mailto:gnajar@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 4:22 PM
> > To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [ib-support] OID: Double or String?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm planning how am I going to implement OIDs for any of my apps using
> > Firebird. I was thinking on strings since I have customers
> > with laptops that
> > download their information to a central server and I want to
> > prefix the OID
> > comming from each computer so I don't have conflicts with
> > OIDs generated in
> > the central server. For Interbase, what data type is more
> > efficient for primary keys ? double or string?
>
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