I agree with you on "generally they receive an id when they reach a central system",
but my scenario is a little bit different: The "user" actually is a company operator, placing orders received by phone for a customer. The customer must receive an order id, for tracking purposes, etc The order is placed but its state is not yet "Confirmed" ( _that_ will happen when the order is processed by the central system) On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Greg Young <gregoryyou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thsoe types of numbers are not generally created assigned in an > occasionally connected system ... maybe I am misunderstanding you ... > generally they receive an id when they reach a central system. > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Caio Kinzel Filho <cai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> One scenario: >> A user post an order, and receives as a confirmation, an order number >> (which must be unique and so, it's my primary key). >> It would be akward to see something like: >> >> "Your order is: 3F2504E0-4F89-11D3-9A0C-0305E82C3301" >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Greg Young <gregoryyou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Why do you want human readable keys? >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:53 PM, caiokf <cai...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Which approach do you guys suggest to handle Primary Keys in an >>>> occasionally connected system? >>>> >>>> In my understanding, the options are: >>>> >>>> - GUIDs/UUIDs : which present a non-human readable key, which I want >>>> to avoid. >>>> - AppID, ID: difficult to mantain the AppID for all the clients, and I >>>> think it kind of polute my domain. >>>> - Some sort of Primary Key Pool: how could I integrate that with >>>> NHibernate in a (most) transparent way (as possible)? >>>> >>>> If someone has some other suggestion or stories about that matter, it >>>> would be very helpfull. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Caio >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought >>> without accepting it. >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought > without accepting it. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to nhusers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nhusers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
