Re: Joining on text field VS int

[Nikolas Everett <nik9000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joining via a tinyint or something will make your large table smaller which is nice.  Smaller tables = faster tables.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Radhika S <rs88820@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
I am going to test this out but would be good to know anyways. A large
table is joined to a tiny table (8 rows) on a text field. Should I be
joining on an int field eg: recid intead of name? Is the performance
affected in either case?
Thanks .