Re: time/date as key fields -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: time/date as key fields
From: "Crispin Bates" <cbates@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:19:06 -0500
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Dieter,

Do you have any reference that says that a UUID from _GENUUID is not unique?

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/index.jsp?topic=/rzatk/GENUUID.htm says it is.

Are you saying it is not?

Thanks,

Crispin.

----- Original Message ----- From: <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: time/date as key fields

... it depends, maybe for referential constraints, if there are database
relations.
BTW: genUUID on AS/400 is only most likely unique!!! Best choice would be an
identity column, if uniqueness is needed.

D*B

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