Re: [PERFORM] Joining on text field VS int

2010-01-07 Thread Nikolas Everett
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 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 t

[PERFORM] Joining on text field VS int

2010-01-06 Thread Radhika S
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 .