At 08:30 PM 27/03/2007, you wrote:

>ive got a demo working using the OCTETS character set. my demo is
>using C# to generate the GUIDS before i perform an insert. the
>alternative is for me to use a UDF to generate the GUIDS from within
>Firebird itself. but i really dont see the point of this as its so
>simple to do with C#.NET. is there any reason it might be better for
>me to go down the UDF route?

Definitely. It's very poor architecture to depend on client
applications to create keys. If you have a good UDF, use that, so
that the database server always creates its own keys.

./heLen