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(at)gmail(dot)com> 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 .
>