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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-27 : 15:56:00

Just Curious, what's the length of the member name column in the database...not the surrogate key

Brett

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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-27 : 19:24:50

Thinking about changing to a globally unique member name?


select
	MyNewMemberName = 
	'0x'+left(replace(newid(),'-',''),35)



MyNewMemberName                       
------------------------------------- 
0x5E12B98E71354776B9281CE447F35FA2

(1 row(s) affected)

CODO ERGO SUM

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-30 : 13:51:22

Nah,

designing a new intranet site for the company. The requirement called for a 30 byte name. I making the key to a user profile table and was wondering if that might be too big

Brett

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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer

4149 Posts

Posted - 2006-01-30 : 13:54:48

I think the forum software allows fifty or maybe seventy-five characters. Something large like that.

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