> Myself, I wouldn't use GUIDs unless I had a need for them because, in big
> batch inserts, it costs more to call an external function to get a GUID
> than it does to pull a value off a generator. On the other hand,
> if there
> was replication in the picture, read-write activity in briefcase versions
> of the database, etc., then it wouldn't make sense to rule them out.
>
> Helen
>

And it would also make sense not to rule out integer/composite PKs in this
context either.
Alan