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Archive for January, 2007

ColdFusion UUID and MSSQL newID()

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

A lot of web applications these days use a UUID as the primary key instead of the int/identity combination (speaking for MSSQL that is).
Now there is a (valid) argument that UUID’s aren’t great for primary keys due to the fact that primary keys are clustered, meaning that integers would work much better if the […]

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To delete or not to delete

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

As a web developer you are constantly faced with building functionality to remove an object from an application. The object could be anything from a web page in a CMS to a user in a CRM, but generally involves a record(s) stored in a database.
For a user ‘using’ the application whenever they access the functionality […]

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