in reply to Re: SQL Troubles
in thread SQL Troubles

That'll work 99.999...9 % of the time. But it's that 0.000...1% of the time that'll get ya (i.e. I wouldn't do this with critical data).

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Re: Re: Re: SQL Troubles
by jepri (Parson) on Dec 02, 2001 at 07:55 UTC
    Hmmm. Not following you. When will it not work? If you are referring to the chance of getting two identical random numbers at the same time, use 50 character strings. Use 100 character strings. And then combine them with the date, time, the phase of the moon and your pid. Date + time + pid alone should be enough, though.

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