RE: Numeric vs. alpha keys - reasons

[CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

That seems to ring a bell....

I think it was in a post from Joe Pluta when he was discussing some of the
testing he was doing with native I/O vs. SQL.


Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Porterfield [mailto:sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 3:02 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Numeric vs. alpha keys - reasons
> 
> 
> Tim Kredlo wrote:
> 
> > I am creating a new G/L account master file layout where 
> the unique key will
> > be a composite field comprised of fields that contain only digits.
> > 
> > The other day a post to the list contained a blurb that 
> indicated it was a
> > common feeling that numeric keys were undesirable. It said 
> something like:
> > 'I know, I know, numeric keys - bad stuff'. (My apologies 
> to the poster for
> > poor paraphrasing.)
> 
> IIRC, that was "I know, I know, numeric keys in character fields."  I 
> forget what list or what thread, though.
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