Sounds like a similar approach to the one I would
take, except that I'd be using Delphi instead. :-)
However, I worry about the performance and the
additional space used by the longer fields. 16 bytes
vs 36 bytes (or 32 bytes at the smallest) is quite a
difference for key fields that must be indexed.

--- David Johnson <d_johnson@...> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I use the doomdark UUID java
> classes under Windows
> and linux with jaybird JDBC, storing the UUID as a
> CHAR (36) with
> character set none (the leading and trailing braces
> that Micro$oft is so
> fond of are not produced by the doomdark classes so
> the text
> representation is two bytes shorter).

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