I thought my database was collation agnostic
My struggles with a customer's database that used a different collation sequence. The easy way is never the right way, or is it?
2018-06-08 (first published: 2016-01-14)
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Thomas Romeo
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GUIDs GUIDs everywhere, but how is my data unique?
After having seen many systems that use GUIDs as the primary key for every table, it is time to say enough is enough.
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