On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:50:55PM -0700, Larry Lowry wrote:
> Well I'm trying to move to MySQL from the MS SQL Server
> world. Most data elements are easy except for the uniqueidentifier.
>
> In the MySQL world what is the preferred/best way to store a
> uniqueidentifier? The easiest would just be a char(36).
If you have unique ids that are 36 characters, then use a char(36).
That seems like the obvious thing to do.
Jeremy
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