On 09/26/12 06:40, Ted Roche wrote:
I don't think a Random GUID or a sequential GUID is any different from a GUID, unless MSFT has redefined GUID in the way they redefined "Innovate."
I went back to the article and clicked on the link to 'sequential GUID' and read the forum post. In fact, this wasn't a GUID at all; just a made up ID combining some sort of system ID with an integer, generated by god knows what rule.
I conclude that at least half the people complaining about GUIDs don't know what they are or how they are generated, and that it's highly likely that many 'GUIDs' being used out there were generated by home-grown hack routines that aren't really GUIDs at all.
Back in the '60s I spent a lot of time looking at random number generators. Don't try to write your own, but if you have to read Don Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" first.
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