Jun 6, 2016 · ROWGUIDCOL is primarily used for MERGE replication, and is also required for FILESTREAM, but can be used in any scenario where you want an immutable column …

Apr 4, 2013 · To paraphrase Eric Lippert's excellent series on GUID's (part 1, part 2, part 3), the acronym is GUID, not GSUID - Globally Unique Identifier, not Globally Secure Unique …

The generated GUIDs should be partially sequential for best performance (eg, newsequentialid() on SQL Server 2005+) and to enable use of clustered indexes; If you are certain about …

Oct 16, 2016 · A GUID is a unique binary number; no other computer in the world will generate a duplicate of that GUID value. That statement is referring to functions like NEWID() in T-SQL …

Next are the issues that only occur if the GUID is part of the clustered index. If the GUID is the clustered index then the GUID will be included the leaf level pages of all non-clustered …

May 13, 2014 · Well, a lot of the information is right there in the SQL Server documentation.A GUID is 16 bytes while a bigint is 8 bytes. That alone affects the distribution of the data across …

Aug 20, 2021 · Your best option here is to scale your database server. There's noting intractable about managing a table with 10 million rows with random GUID as the clustered key, it's just …

MSDN Reference "Creates a GUID that is greater than any GUID previously generated by this function on a specified computer since Windows was started. After restarting Windows, the …

Dec 19, 2007 · Note that in SQL Server 2005, the curly braces ( {, }) are allowed as part of a GUID (uniqueidentifier) parameter value. However, the GUID value must be enclosed within …

Jun 24, 2016 · [GUID as PK] [bigint as PK], [GUID as FK] The thing is, the Staging Table is using GUID as the primary key. Reason, we have to reference back the records uploaded from …