Re: SYS_GUID

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:40:27 -0700
Message-ID: <OFEB794121.FF0263BF-ON88256EEC.00717289-88256EEC.00719403@radisys.com>

> Does anyone use the SYS_GUID function made available in Oracle9i?
>
> I recommended this be used instead of sequences for a distributed
> processing design, and some on the team are rightfully concerned about
> recoverability issues. For example, would a recovered database table
> have the original sys_guid values? Would the recovered values still be
> unique? If anyone knows the answers to these questions, or has some
> experience with using this functionality, I would appreciate hearing
> about their experience.
>

I haven't used it myself.

A search on MetaLink shows that the SYS_GUID() is globally unique, as the docs state, so collisions should not happen.

SYS_GUID appeared first in 8i ( not sure which version of 8i )

Jared

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