>>>Hi George,
>>>
>>>>It calls the MS RPC function UuidCreate to generate a globally unique integer?
>>>
>>>Actually, it's only highly probable that the GUID is unique, not granted. :)
>>>
>>Hi Christof,
>>
>>For this purpose, absolutely. My thought was that with 16 bytes serving as a key, the likelihood of duplication would be highly remote. From a pure theoretical standpoint, I don't believe it's possible to independently generate a key that's 100% guaranteed to be unique.
>
>Gearge,
>
>Except for using a key table that tracks the last used key and generates the next one.

Hi Jim,

That's why I included the word "independently" in my post. I meant to exclude external references such as a key table. Having a key table, and the mechanisms to properly increment the value, are really (in IMHO) the proper way to do this.