On 07 Dec 2005 10:36:28 -0200, Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah!  Then it is a column with a unique value containing only ascii
> alphanumerical characters (sans some special chars).  I see now.
>
> I believe this is so application dependent that I don't see where I would use
> that in one of the last 5 apps that I wrote with TG.  But then, if I had that,
> maybe I thought different. :-)

Here are a few examples:

A blog: title="My Article", slug="my_article"
http://yoursite/blog/my_article

An address book: name="Kevin Dangoor", slug="kevin_dangoor"
http://yoursite/addresses/kevin_dangoor

The idea is just a human-readable ID that is generally automatically
created as much as possible.

Kevin

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