> -----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 -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
