Hello,
We rely heavily on UUID's. We use ColdFusion's UUID
generator. As long as you have NIC the UUID is
guaranteed to be universally unique for at least
a few thousand years..
SQL 7 can also generate a GUID which is the same thing
more or less.
The UUID generation algorithm uses the machines Mac address
to make it universally unique so if you do not have a NIC
then it can only be guaranteed unique to that one machine.
Jeremy Allen
elliptIQ Inc.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:17 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: CreateUUID()
>
>
>I have not used it, but I believe it is at least as unique as things like
>NT's station ID etc.
>
>I wouldn't worry about it.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 2:45 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: CreateUUID()
>
>
>Does anyone on this list rely on CreateUUID() for creating a completely
>unique identifier? Anyone know how it compares in effectiveness to using
>uniqueidentifier and making it a row GUID in SQL?
>
>
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