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agent_008_nl
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Mike, I leave it to others to see your attempt as serious or not (in case not they might not dare to say so). I for myself think you're far too smart to ask this seriously. You try to test my knowledge I think. That's ok, but I think what I can answer (clustered indexes do not exist in the openedge db, some cut and paste comments of others like "Is the slower creation a concern? Personally, I find it acceptable. Unless your application involves very frequent inserts (in which case a GUID key may not be ideal for other reasons), the cost of occasional GUID creation will pale in comparison to the benefits of faster database operations." would not add much to the discussions that have taken place already on the peg and at exchange (I assume). Besides I'm not a db guru. You better discuss this with f.e. Gus and Tom.
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