Some time back, I published a message to this site outlining a completely
reliable way to
make sure primary key ids were not duplicated.
If anyone has an archive of that, it may be of interest here.
Concerning large random numbers, you might want to look into my
RANDOM UDF.
-- Dennis McGrath
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of K Kleinman Zajac
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:59 AM
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Subject: Re: Random numbers continued
>> Or, maybe what her instructor MEANT was that meaningless, arbitrarily
generated id numbers was a good thing (which is also debatable, to
those strong in theory and short in practicality), and the word "random"
was misapplied. <<
That is a perfect example of why she needs to be able to explain WHY she
considers a certain way of doing things "good". If she can explain it in
laymans terms, so much the better. But at LEAST in technical terms.
