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07/03/2004 15:26:28
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00883338
Message ID:
00883933
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GUIDs are supposed to be unique. Since they are based on the MAC (network serial number), they are supposed to be unique World-wide. Cases have been known of network cards with duplicate MAC addresses, however.

>I guess that I wasn't clear. I have 20 locations that will generate their own Primary Key and then sync the records to one location. This means, at least in my understanding, that I can't use AutoInc, or a counter table.
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>I could use a 32 character GUID, but I thought that I read that on fast systems it is possible to get duplicate GUID's.
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>Comments appreciated.
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>DJ
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