Re: Unique ID's Alphanumeric to save digits ?

2001-03-05 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:49:33PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Unique ID's Alphanumeric to save digits ?

2001-02-28 Thread Gerald L. Clark
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 charac

Re: Unique ID's Alphanumeric to save digits ?

2001-02-28 Thread Laurent Oget
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

Re: Unique ID's Alphanumeric to save digits ?

2001-02-28 Thread Gerald L. Clark
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. > > 4 character numeric ID has 10,000

Unique ID's Alphanumeric to save digits ?

2001-02-27 Thread S A
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. 4 character numeric ID has 10,000 combinations. 4 charac