At 10:15 PM 24/05/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>The application that I'm converting is generating a seed to use in
>generating a session. The comment in the code says that the
>programmer who wrote the code thinks that using a seed in combination
>with time, makes for a more secure session #! Is this true?

No!! it is not a guarantee of uniqueness. "More secure" than what, I
wonder?

KISS (Keep it simple, ...) Use a generator for your Session numbers and
make sure you declare the column as BigInt, not integer.

>I have
>no clue. Just trying to get things converted and all the bugs out

This would be definitely be a bug to eliminate!!

Helen