Joining via a tinyint or something will make your large table smaller which is nice. Smaller tables = faster tables.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Radhika S <rs88...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am going to test this out but would be good to know anyways. A large > table is joined to a tiny table (8 rows) on a text field. Should I be > joining on an int field eg: recid intead of name? Is the performance > affected in either case? > Thanks . >
