Great thanks.

>You don't necessarily have to use CreateUUID to generate a value for a
>primary key field.. Since you are using this as a login, you could try
>making a string comprised of the user name and the time created its
>created..

ok good.  I like this.

>If you are querying to see if the ID matches any others in the database,
>if it returns any results at all, it is not unique.
>
>Suppose your query  was something like:
>
>select *
>from table
>where ID = '#uniqueID#'
>
>If it returns any records at all, the ID is not uniqueID is not unique.

ah great, it's as I thought.  Nice when it DOES work out that way.

thanks for the answers.

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