Laurent Oget wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:09:04AM -0600, Gerald L. Clark wrote:
> > S A wrote:
> > >
> > > Can MySQL help with generation of ALPHANUMERIC unique identifiers ?
> > >
> > > ID's that use the full ASCII char range create more possible combinations with
>the same # of characters which can be important when squeezing into cookie storage
>space.
> > >
> >
> > And 4 byte unsigned integer has 256 times that.
> >
>
> but sending unsigned ints in binary encoding in a cookie might get you into trouble.
>not that it has anything to do with mysql but ........
>
You don't send 'binary' data to represent numbers, you send string
representations of numbers.
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