Re: Unique rec. ID advice needed

Vikram Goel (Cntr) wrote:
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> Stan,
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> The best way to get unique keys is by using a sequencein Oracle.

those of you using webserver will know this makes for some odd looking buttons. if that's the case, try using a time hack of grabbing the minutes and seconds from the clock and dumping them into a unique field. this gives a consistent four character
field length... but is not for heavy access situations due to the need to use a busy loop for finding unique timehacks.

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