Is a search through numbers (INT) faster than characters in an mySQL database?
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Thijs
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Is a search through numbers (INT) faster than characters in an mySQL database?
Regards,
Thijs
In practice the difference will be small – it will increase depending on the relative length of the 2 fields. The question pre-supposes that 2 are interchangeable – which is a very bad assumption given that MySQL natively supports an ENUM data-type.
If it’s that important to you, why not measure it?