OK, if you say so... BUT... this doesn't mean that
you won't run into problems using source code
libraries and frameworks that manipulate the fields.
The particular problem I ran into was manipulating the
"GUID" value inside code- not within the database
stored procedures etc. I'd prefer to be able to
simply retrieve a value directly into a GUID variable
type so that any of my code can handle it as such.

I don't want a "hack" of a solution- just clean
support for it within Firebird. I'm prepared to
wait... I don't need it right now. In fact I'm not
switching over to Firebird just yet. I'll wait until
it has the support that I need and then I'll start
using it extensively. Right now I'm just playing with
it. MS SQL Server is my "preferred" database at this
point in time.

Thanks,
Kevin.

--- "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@...> wrote:

>
> Kevin Berry wrote:
> >
> > The problem with CHAR(16) fields (been there done
> > that!) is that you run into problems with special
> > characters- e.g. ASCII 0 terminates the string
> etc.
>
> Not with character set OCTET.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Ann

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