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Date: 07/13/04
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There might be some system that requires a 4 digit number and the PK is
being used directly. Also, this same system might need to be exported
to Excel, which trims leading zeros and is generally a pain in the ass.
Peter Westergaard wrote:
>I've done exactly this for a really cheap-and-dirty instance where two
>people were doing bulk data entry into two different instances of a mysql
>table which would eventually be stitched together. by giving one a higher
>range, the data migration afterwords was very easy.
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>Other than that, can't imagine a use for this approach.
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