Barney Boisvert wrote:
> More simply, it's a character string such as this:
>
> F95906F1-9207-4774-286345BF3260E685
>
> Which is guarenteed to be unique.  It's really a big-ass number that's
> encoded in hexidecimal, and then split with three dashes, but for all
> intensive purposes you can consider it a string.

Except for one thing. The case sensitivity of strings depends on
the collation/environment, and UUIDs are never case sensitive in
their string representation.

Jochem

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