Subject | Re: Primary Key - GUID |
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Author | Ian A. Newby |
Post date | 2006-01-31T09:30:24Z |
Hi Lester,
Just to be picky :), (I had the uuidlib library written by an
associate some years ago), the library produces internally a GUID in
its native format. This can be returned in two forms...
GUID is the common windows GUID, consisting of hex characters.
UUID is a 22 character string, containing only characters which are
usable in URLs, organized so that Firebirds indexing compression is
effective.
There are routines in the library to convert back and forth between
them. So a UUID is as good as a GUID, just shorter.
So the names might be wrong, but they do work.
Regards
Ian
Just to be picky :), (I had the uuidlib library written by an
associate some years ago), the library produces internally a GUID in
its native format. This can be returned in two forms...
GUID is the common windows GUID, consisting of hex characters.
UUID is a 22 character string, containing only characters which are
usable in URLs, organized so that Firebirds indexing compression is
effective.
There are routines in the library to convert back and forth between
them. So a UUID is as good as a GUID, just shorter.
So the names might be wrong, but they do work.
Regards
Ian