What do you care about how many characters are changing so long as it
produces unique UUIDS--which it does?
Hal Helms
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-----Original Message-----
From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 1:12 PM
To: Fusebox
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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