I'll work with that; I can never remember if Sys(3) or Sys(2015) was "truly unique". I was thinking that both might be based on DateTime but ah, nevermind. I'll try 2015 :)




>Why not use sys(2015) (which according to help will not return duplicate names) instead of sys(3) (which will return duplicate names if executed more than once in the same millisecond)?
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>With sys(2015), you can leave off the underscore which is always the first character and get a 9 character unique name.
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>>I am putting together a heavily-multiuser application, and I want to make sure my central VFP service is using uniquely-named cursors all the time (they live in the same DataSession). Right now I am just naming them "x"+Sys(3).
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>>Is that random enough? This isn't an app where multiple users have an instance of VFP and are making their own unique cursors, this is a VFP "data server" where a single .dll is taking a lot of SQL from a lot of simultaneous users. I only have 10 chars for a cursor name, so giving the cursors a GUID for a name is out of the question (isn't it?).
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>>Thanks.