Posted by D. on 05/28/07 09:50

Hi,
I'm planning the structure of a SqlServer 2005 database for a new
application.
The requirement is that primary keys must be "natural"; i.e. in the table
Customers the primary key will be a max. 10 characters string (but the
string may be filled i.e. with only 5 charachters).

Should I define these primary keys as char[5] or varchar[5]?
I'm interested in your opinion in particular about performace issue, because
there will be tables with millions of records...


Thanks,
Davide.

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