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 NEWSEQUENTIALID question

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walwinkle
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Posted - 2012-03-01 : 19:59:34
I am in the process of migrating data from our current data structure to a new different data structure. We will be using replication so all the primary keys are GUID's I have also set the default value to NEWSEQUENTIALID() for performance and indexing purposes.

I am currently writing SQL scripts to transfer the data. I need to know the primary key of the record I am adding as I will be using it as a foreign key in the same script so I have been using NEWID() to generate this value 'SET @SomeKey = NEWID()'. This however means that my primary keys will not be sequential for the migrated data.

Will this have a performance impact and essentially make using the NEWSEQUENTIALID() redundant?

I have a workaround for generating sequential id's. Create a temp table (id INT, SomeSEQUENTIALID GUID), populate it with any number of sequential id's, select TOP 1 SomeSEQUENTIALID FROM tbl_sequentialIds ORDER BY Id ASC.
Once I select my SomeSEQUENTIALID, I delete the record so it cannot be used again.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks



yosiasz
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1635 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-08 : 16:52:41
read this first

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/post/Disk-space-is-cheap.aspx

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