Apr 4, 2013 · To paraphrase Eric Lippert's excellent series on GUID's (part 1, part 2, part 3), the acronym is GUID, not GSUID - Globally Unique Identifier, not Globally Secure Unique …

Jun 7, 2016 · ROWGUIDCOL is primarily used for MERGE replication, and is also required for FILESTREAM, but can be used in any scenario where you want an immutable column …

However, heaps in SQL Server are extremely inefficient for data retrieval. My experience has been that a clustered index is always desirable if you have the opportunity to declare one. I …

The generated GUIDs should be partially sequential for best performance (eg, newsequentialid() on SQL Server 2005+) and to enable use of clustered indexes; If you are certain about …

May 13, 2014 · Well, a lot of the information is right there in the SQL Server documentation.A GUID is 16 bytes while a bigint is 8 bytes. That alone affects the distribution of the data across …

Nov 8, 2018 · And after playing a little more: declare @TestUI uniqueidentifier = '43367830-4437-3543-3132-304538434139' ,@TestBin binary(16) = …

Jun 24, 2016 · [GUID as PK] [bigint as PK], [GUID as FK] The thing is, the Staging Table is using GUID as the primary key. Reason, we have to reference back the records uploaded from …

Aug 20, 2021 · Your best option here is to scale your database server. There's noting intractable about managing a table with 10 million rows with random GUID as the clustered key, it's just …

Jan 7, 2016 · SQL Server After Insert trigger does not perform actions 1 Configuring a non-nullable foreign key uniqueidentifier with a default Guid.Empty value that exists in foreign table

Oct 16, 2016 · A GUID is a unique binary number; no other computer in the world will generate a duplicate of that GUID value. That statement is referring to functions like NEWID() in T-SQL …