Subject RE: [Firebird-Architect] GUID Key Fields
Author Leyne, Sean
Ann,

> > I believe Kylix and Delphi have functions to generate
> > GUIDs. So I'll be using my dev tool library to
> > generate the GUIDs so they should be unique across
> > systems. That should make it cross-platform capable.
> > :-)
>
> And your Solaris, HP, and AIX systems?

I can't be 100% certain but I believe that the recent updates to these
platforms all have GUID/UUID functions which generate
appropriate/equivalent values.

MS did invent GUIDs they just 'renamed' them from *nix UUIDs.


Sean