> BTW: Such an extremely high part-number seems rather odd, and could > indicate those numbers encode additional information, which may indicate > this should be a string anyway. >
Could these number be GUID encoded as Int128 ? If so they could be stored as CHAR(16) CHARACTER SET OCTETS
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