a guid is a 128 bit number, not a string.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PUB: Guillermo Najar-Arreola [mailto:gnajar@...]
> Sent: Jueves, 29 de Agosto de 2002 14:25
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ib-support] OID: Double or String?
>
>
> 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
> news:66187D861C1747499BE1365B74E0369110ACCC@......
> >
> > 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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