Re: Unique Strings
From: Parris Geiser <parris_at_walleye.esp.bellcore.com>
Date: 1995/09/29
Message-ID: <44h8g7$5ep_at_athos.cc.bellcore.com>#1/1
Date: 1995/09/29
Message-ID: <44h8g7$5ep_at_athos.cc.bellcore.com>#1/1
Scott Mecimore (mecimojs_at_cbm.com) wrote:
> I have a need to get a unique string to store into the database. Does
> oracle have away to generate a unique string that can be returned to
> an app and make sure that string is never generated again ? We need
> this for a unique index key with thousands of users hitting the database
> at the same time.
Why not just define an ORACLE sequence and convert the number returned to a string? Sounds too simple, eh?
parris geiser Received on Fri Sep 29 1995 - 00:00:00 CET