Subject Re: [firebird-support] Firebird 2.1 RC1 gen_uuid function
Author Mustafa Şimşek
Thanks for answer. Problem is the not getting normal characters. i
send some samples, i am getting some strange symbols from this
function, like : +Ë"€ W{C« l|¾UIß.

Best Regards.

Mustafa Simsek.

On Jan 31, 2008 7:10 PM, Sasha Matijasic <selectnull@...> wrote:
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> Probably neither.
> Uuid is defined as char(16) character set octets. The results you get
> depend on your client application and whether it can format uuids the way
> you want it to.
> If you use flamerobin, for example, you would get 32 characters, 16 bytes
> formatted as hex (although still not uuid format).
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> You can write your own UDF to represent uuid in a format that you need.
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