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 Posted by Roy Harvey on 07/11/06 19:19 
I would expect bigint to be a slightly better choice than decimal.  It 
stores in 8 bytes, while a decimal of 10-19 digits takes up 9. 
 
Roy Harvey 
Beacon Falls, CT 
 
On 11 Jul 2006 12:12:27 -0700, "rottytooth" <rottytooth@gmail.com> 
wrote: 
 
>Is there any disadvantages of using Decimal type as a primary key? If 
>so, are there other data types that can hold large numbers (more than 
>an int can hold: 13 digits or so) and perform better as a Key field? 
> 
>Thanks.
 
  
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