You don't need to rekey those tables. You can use hashes of the strings. Or you can build a dictionary to use at the import/export points.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Charles McBrearty <[email protected]> wrote: > In any event, your suggestion to switch to numeric IDs is a non-starter. > This is because re-key'ing the tables in the database system I'm using > would break all the other jobs running against said tables. >
