to make it
'left-most significant' - something we can't do in UniData.)
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Gregor Scott
Sent: January 27, 2011 05:25 PM
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-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Gregor Scott
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The use of both the @USER.NO and the current PID ensure the UUID is
unique across the installation, and the presence of the UV system id
makes
Of Gregor Scott
Sent: January 26, 2011 07:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] UUID [was Data in Dict]
Interesting trade-off between the overhead of calculating a unique-yet
compact sequential number and calculating a consistently long UUID.
We use the last-number-stored-in-a-file method.
We
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of u2ug
Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2011 11:19 PM
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This is only guaranteed to be unique per process due to the usage
Sorry - I missed the second page.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Gregor Scott
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The use of both
Most OSs have a call available for generating a UUID (Universally Unique ID) or
GUID (Microsoft's acronym for Globally Unique ID). By definition and accepted
generation standards these are almost guaranteed (!) to be unique (the
probability of a clash is extremely small) across all computers.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Boydell,
Stuart
Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2011 10:07 AM
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Most OSs have a call available for generating a UUID
January 2011 10:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [U2] UUID [was Data in Dict]
We also are using a form of UUID instead of sequential numbering on most
of our new files. A lot easier to handle and makes maintenance easier.
Thanks for the Stuart, I wasn't aware of that. For those using UniData,
you