> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Oliver
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:41 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Faking relational databases with PDBs
> 
> 
> Jeff wrote:
> > > I also don't believe that the Palm code guarantees
> 
> > > that
> > > unique ID won't be 
> > > duplicated.  
> > 
> > True, but it's pretty unlikely.
> 
> Didn't you mention you're writing this for a
> healthcare
> application?  Ask your users if "pretty unlikely"
> is good enough when the result could be mixing up
> patients and their test results ;-)

I didn't do the math, but if our customers see enough patients to meet
the probability of wrap-around errors with the patient's UID, then we
can probably afford to upgrade them to the Sybase solution.  :)

-Jeff Ishaq



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