Extended UD Field vs UD Field

Epicor ERP 10
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This is just a general question that I am trying to understand from a best practice view.

I see a lot of people post questions that refer to the UD fields that exist in some tables (e.g. UserChar, UserDate, etc). I was always under the impression that it is better to use the Extended UD fields then the ones in the tables.

Does anyone know if there are certain situations where one choice is better than the other? Is one way better than the other?

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in E10 you should “ALWAYS” use Extended UD fields. Those other fields you see are legacy fields from old versions of Epicor. There is a slight performance hit for using Extended UD since they are stored in a separate table, but with Views and such it is pretty much negligible.

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