lemee see... CF 4, 5, 1, SP1, running on NT with SP6....
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Helms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:36 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
>
> I also ran a test and I'm getting...well, here are the first five:
>
> BFA3D7DA-1037-485F-BB27E4A4BA450237
> 890E4B13-3AE3-42BB-9EEB5EB818CA638C
> A03D3638-0B5D-4140-AB8DD72D57BF8B6F
> 0ABA5BFE-E515-4374-9AA7309A68E4A1F4
> D3ED3670-A7F5-4BD6-B225B557C7CF666A
>
> What version of CF server are you running, Alan? I remember when
> CreateUUID() did produce the results you're getting? I'm wondering if this
> was fixed at some point.
>
> Hal Helms
> == See www.ColdFusionTraining.com for info on "Best Practices with
> ColdFusion & Fusebox" training, Jan 22-25 ==
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 8:08 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
>
>
> Here's the code I ran as a test:
> THis is alan's<br>
> <cfloop from ="1" to ="5" index="z">
> <cf_uuid>
> <cfoutput>#UUID#<br>
> </cfoutput>
> </cfloop>
> and this ain't...<br>
> <cfloop from ="1" to ="5" index="z">
> <cfoutput>#CreateUUID()#<br>
> </cfoutput>
> And here is the results:
> THis is alan's
> C81EFB22-B071-B071-97B6-97B97267850BE506
> 655DA5B9-5D90-5D90-34E4-34E409FEEB603949
> 028C6E0F-FACE-FACE-FA23-E123C35441A47D7C
> B0BA2897-B0BD-971D-971D-8E518CEBA5E8B2B0
> 65A9D22E-5DF9-544C-444C-44403662FB4DE5E3
> and this ain't...
> 6505F7EA-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7EB-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7EC-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7ED-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7EE-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
>
> Now, the box I'm running this on is my development box, a Pentium Pro 200,
> Win NT 4.0, SP6a, CF4.5.1 Ent Ed SP1. Tell me, what is the setup you ran
> your createUUID() test on?
>
> Alan McCollough
> Web Programmer
> Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
> Alaska Native Medical Center
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Voldengen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:09 PM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
> >
> > Those are wierd results, Alan. I just ran this code on
> > my PC, running WIn2000:
> >
> > <cfoutput>
> > <cfloop from="1" to="10" index="i">
> > #CreateUUID()#<BR>
> > </CFLOOP>
> > </CFOUTPUT>
> >
> > And I got:
> >
> > 92135D25-A5B1-4B21-9416C81D1BBEE261
> > AD3FFCCC-5B9D-460E-8D8C38642633AF92
> > 3A96B636-1E3D-4860-AE983269A53ADD98
> > BC99EDC9-D8A1-4C63-961E2DCE780CFA21
> > EACE7D25-3D98-48C8-92B63D7890F4848A
> > EC069231-718A-4664-99267707C7D2BF2D
> > 9FFEC4BC-D385-4690-B7EDAD09C508238A
> > F17F9CB6-FF60-4E14-9D8FE3D3DDE9B113
> > 0A9DB40A-6014-490A-867B521C2E709D5F
> > 6FDBD9DE-89D4-4774-8AA005F80F47C127
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hal Helms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 5:55 PM
> > > To: Fusebox
> > > Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
> > >
> > >
> > > Alan, are these true UUIDs?
> > >
> > > Hal Helms
> > > == See www.ColdFusionTraining.com for info on "Best Practices with
> > > ColdFusion & Fusebox" training, Jan 22-25 ==
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:14 PM
> > > To: Fusebox
> > > Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is a CFLOOP of 5 UUIDs built using CreateUUID():
> > > 6505F7E0-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> > > 6505F7E1-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> > > 6505F7E2-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> > > 6505F7E3-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> > > 6505F7E4-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> > > Care to guess what the sixth run of CFLOOP produced?
> > >
> > > Now, here is a CFLOOP of 5 UUIDs using CF_UUID:
> > > 09776555-09DA-E1DA-E1DA-D81ECBA988E8F77F
> > > BF662FEC-A7C6-AE08-9E08-9E087421FE4C2BA2
> > > 6CA0A744-44F4-44F4-3B37-3B370B8854A18EF6
> > > 09DE61D9-0923-E123-E123-D876C51CB8D6C329
> > > CF0D2A51-A70D-AE61-9E61-9E64A1B72F4B176E
> > > Care to take a crack at the sixth iteration of the CFLOOP? Hah!
> > >
> > > Now, consider the following: If you stuff a UUID into a URL
> > > as a security
> > > token for selecting user sessions, shopping carts, or
> > > whatever, wouldn't you
> > > like to know that somebody is going to have to do a LOT of
> > > work before they
> > > get lucky with a URL hack?
> > >
> > >
> > > Alan McCollough
> > > Web Programmer
> > > Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
> > > Alaska Native Medical Center
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Erik Voldengen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:11 AM
> > > > To: Fusebox
> > > > Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
> > > >
> > > > Why does it matter if only three or so characters of a UUID
> > > > are unique? As long as they are indeed unique, who cares?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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