2006/7/19, Frank Schlottmann-Goedde <frank@...>:

> Daniel Albuschat schrieb:
> > 2006/7/18, lutterot <lutteroth@...>:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> I need to use UUDIs/GUIDs as primary keys in my DB and was trying to
> >> generate/convert them with the uuidlib UDF library available on
> >> IBPhoenix.
> >
> > Don't do this. It's fine to have a UUID as a separate, unique field
> > but having it
> > as a primary key is not good, not at all.
>
> We use reverse guids (char(36)) as primary keys for about two years now
> and it's working. Why do you think that there are problems?

See my other post, I revoked this statement.

> It's really great for replication and combining databases.
> No relevant speed impact.

Just out of curiousity, how big is your db?

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