Why not use GUIDs?
----- Original Message -----
From: "McCollough, Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: inserting your own UUID into a db table
> Along the lines of Steve N's recommendation to insert your own ID fields
> into db tables, I present,
> (drumroll)
> CF_UUID ! Ta-da! Yeah, yer all saying 'so what..." Well, I'll tell ya
what.
> This came out of my need to manually stick in a UUID into a table, it
> relates to that Crystal Reports thing I mentioned in a separate thread
> yesterday.
>
> I tried using the built-in createUUID() function, but if you want to see
> some pretty lame UUID, try CFLOOPING it a hundred times. Out of the entire
> UUID string, maybe 3 chars will change over the entire loop.
>
> SoOoOo, not willing to use other's UUID tags cuz' I wanted to roll my own,
I
> cooked up CF_UUID (can you believe NOBODY named their tag CF_UUID yet?),
> which went up to the Allaire Tag Gallery.
>
> Ya can also snag a copy at www.anthc.org/skunkworks ...
>
>
> (and a shameless, seriously shameless plug... Go to www.mp3.com/kittycat
and
> listen to my songs. I've got one tune hovering at #11 on the
> alternative-grunge chart)
>
> Alan McCollough
> Web Programmer
> Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
> Alaska Native Medical Center
>
>
>
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