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by roywiggins
2106 days ago
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The best rule of thumb I've seen for this is that unless incrementing a value makes sense, probably use a text field unless you have some other really good reason. So: auto-incremented IDs yes, arbitrary IDs that you don't control no, phone numbers no, SSNs/PINs/ZIP codes, also no. |
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