On 17 Jan 2005 at 11:55, - Aucun - wrote: (...) > Lotus Notes is not only an emailing > system but rather a database system. I recently found out for a personal > small development that the millions of records (not files, records) in the > hundreds of databases online all over the world seem to have a random > identification number of 32 bytes giving more 10^77 unique ids and nearly no > chance of a clash. Though I am not sure, I believe that those databases rely > on this scheme to uniquely identify all those records (Ok then each database > also has a unique identifier which is in fact even longer: I do not > understand why but that should make the system future proof enough).
Datadesign uses a similar scheme.... (...) > While I write this, I suddenly realise that I could have done it from > QPC+SMSQ/E+SBASIC since QPC has the same shell command (or open a Windows > application from SBASIC), but then I should have bought about 150 QPCs for > the ~150 users of this system in my company! So what are you wating for? Wolfgang ---------------------------------------- www.scp-paulet-lenerz.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
