On Aug 24, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>> Guids are nice but can add a significant size overhead to your database.
>
> Yes, that is the one disadvantage I've identified, but storage is cheap. It
> isn't as
> if query performance necessarily goes down as the database grows in size.
Actually, query performance can typically improve. Keys that sort
sequentially don't form well-balanced trees, and many indexing algorithms rely
upon a tree distribution.
-- Ed Leafe
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