Hi John,
I've heard you mention the sys(2015) before for UIDs, however you seem to be one of the few people using it. Or am I mistaken and most people use it.
I was thinking fo switching over to that and dumping my NextKey function that uses a table.
>Jeez, this sure has generated a lot of messages.....
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>My take: I'm with the surrogate key crowd. I don't reuse crap. I either use some variation on SYS(0)+SYS(2015) or a GUID and fuggedaboudit.
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>Even SQL Server is going this way, hence the uniqueidentifier (which is a GUID) in addition to the identity (integer).
Roi
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