On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 12:37 , Dmitri Colebatch wrote: > no - dont do that for the reasons you indicate. Instead use a > sequence, or > other database generated number (my opinion). given the current > options, > this is my preferred choice - and you will not incur the cost of > locking the > table. (note here that a sequence is a vendor specific thing).
What about simply using an UUID instead? That way you can generate a truly unique primary key on the client side and not incur any overhead communicating back and forth with the server just to get a key. PA. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
