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I inherited a SQL Server database where many tables have a primary key of type numeric(18,0) .
What reasons (historical perhaps?) would someone choose this datatype for a primary key?
I would guess that the SQL Server database was originally designed in a version prior to SQL Server 2000, and this was the only way they could get an ‘integer’ bigger than the standard int. Since then, a bigint would have been more appropriate.