Should I Use A Unique Identifier As A Primary Key?
Take the following sample code. Four similar tables with an INT IDENTITY, BIGINT IDENTITY, and two with UNIQUEIDENTIFIERS, one using newid() and the other with newsequentialid(). Once the tables are created and we insert 100,000 rows into each, they are very similar, but they take up very different amounts of disk space. Using the Database Health Reports application, we …
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