On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:11 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> For what exactly? Isn't a comparison on 4 numeric bytes (1 (or 1/2)
> word in modern hardware) more efficient than comparing sequences of
> string characters?
What on earth makes you think the db engine compares numbers as strings???
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