Introduction

Every database designer faces a decision regarding a selection of a database key type. The common practice, textbooks, and intuition suggest that numeric keys are better than character ones. And the strongest argument for numeric keys is performance - it is generally perceived that numeric keys provide for faster comparison operations inside the database thus improving search and access time.

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We’be been using a wonderful Perl web testing package HTTP::WebTest by Ilya Martynov for years . It’s quite old, but it aged gracefully except for one small problem: HTTP::WebTest’s API.pm module dies if an improper URI is passed along. Read the rest of this entry »

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