Hi Raymond ---

Rick Strahl has some great code to show how this is done at his WestWind website. If you do a search on GUID on the UT in the messages and files, you might some additional info on it there as well.



>Out of curiosity how do you GUID to generate Primary Keys?
>
>thanks
>>Hiya Craig ----
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>>I hate @*#^@^&# integers :-)
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>>I used to use SYS(3), then went to SYS(2015) and now I'm quite happy generating GUIDs for primary keys.....any system which relies on an incremented number, in VFP, is suspect IMHO...now in SQL that's a different story.
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>>>Actually, Mac went into great detail about why integer is better than character. There is an article on my website that discusses primary keys.