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Are There That Many GUIDs?
Do a lot of people actually use GUIDs as Primary Keys? I haven’t used them much, and I would have thought that more people chose identity keys. It seems that most of the demos and examples I see from bloggers … Continue reading
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Are there that many GUIDs?
Steve Jones talks about a recent survey that showed more people use GUIDs as primary keys than identity values. Continue reading
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NetFlix and Null
There are some progressive companies out there, and I think they are doing some very interesting things with how they treat employees and work with them. One thing that Netflix does, and I’ve seen others do, is eliminate the tracking … Continue reading
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