Hi, Hilmar-

>>I mentioned a couple of times conditions that make GUIDs unusable, but thanks anyway for the suggestion.
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>Oh? I must have missed the threads.

Yep. THat would be the first sentence that said "I need to generate 7-digit, unique, random numeric quasi-serial number." ;-)

>I do know that the guarantee of the GUID being unique depends on the presence of a NIC.

Interesting. I did not know that.