> You could create a udf that strips the extra characters. > Sure, but my point was more just to try and figure out why there was a need for it. As far as I'm concerned, my CDATA and CGLOBAL tables both have CFID columns large enough to store either 35 or 52 character UUID values (with the CFID, of course), but if it was for "uniqueness", I was just questioning if the algorithm already takes that into account with the 35 char string.
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