Can your application handle all BIGINT values?
In the past I’ve written about monitoring identity columns to ensure there’s room to grow. But there’s a related danger that’s a little more subtle. Say you have a table whose identity column is an 8-byte bigint. An application that converts those values to a 4-byte integer will not always fail! Those applications will only […]
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