Informix serial Numbers work really well as generalized keys, and I am a fan of using a serial number column on all dimension tables.

Informix的序号很适合作为通用键，并且我非常热衷于在每个维度表中使用序号列。

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It is this binary representation that is used in the index entry when a number column is indexed.

当数字列建立索引时，正是这个二进制表示用于索引项中。

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The Number column indicates the number of logical logs sequentially.

Number 列显示逻辑日志的编号。

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