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Tue, Oct 24 2006 12:06 PM	Permanent Link
Heiko Knuettel	In some future release I think with ADO.NET these GUIDs are getting more and more important, and storing them as binaries would make everything a bit smaller and faster. Cheers Heiko
Tue, Oct 24 2006 4:13 PM	Permanent Link
"Ralf Mimoun"	Heiko Knuettel wrote: > In some future release > > I think with ADO.NET these GUIDs are getting more and more important, > and storing them as binaries would make everything a bit smaller and > faster. I use then extensively in a huge system, running 24/7 on 6 sites. I had never any speed problems with the current GUID implementation. Really, never. And that system use GUIDs as IDs everywhere, with quite some complex, multiple JOINs. Ralf
Tue, Oct 24 2006 5:01 PM	Permanent Link
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com	Heiko, << I think with ADO.NET these GUIDs are getting more and more important, and storing them as binaries would make everything a bit smaller and faster. >> We might be able to offer an alternative binary version of the GUID field. However, there's nothing stopping you from using a ftBytes field now for storing binary GUIDs. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com