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Re: BINARY_CHECKSUM IN ORACLE

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 19:58:30 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2006.05.02.19.58.29.824415@telus.net> 





On Tue, 02 May 2006 12:08:37 -0700, Vladimir M. Zakharychev wrote:


>>Please expand.  (If the uniqueness MUST BE based on a hash, I agree with
>>your assessment.  If it's just plain uniqueness, then I'm intrigued by
>>your answer.)




> 

> On second thought, if OP really meant to use BINARY_CHECKSUM to uniquely

> identify rows, then ROWID is certainly what he's after, especially in the

> absence of primary keys. :)

> 




;-)
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