On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:36:59 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >The purpose of TIMESTAMP is just its face value: to provide a temporal >log of when a database event occurred. It is a measure of external >times, rather than of the internal clock of the CPU. > I believe that in some cases the order in which events occur is also important, and that was part of the motivation for designing STCK(E) to return unique, monotonically ascending values.
Sure, a µsec timestamp and an incrementing integer with coordination among multiple CPUs (CS?) serves the purpose, but why reinvent that wheel in software? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
