Goo'day, Ross...At 08:50 01/07/05 +1000, you wrote:
.... the god news is that he now has multiple alternatives to trial.
Probably have to wait until Easter....<grin>
Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage - an Evolution in Software Development
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>Subject: RE: [U2] - Determining time sequence
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>Ross, I'm not derogating the use of sequential IDs but IIRC, the bloke
had
>a reason not to use a sequential id counter and wanted an alternative.
>The uuid spec states that uuid should cater for time adjustments on the
>local clock, hence, shouldn't be "vulnerable" (Of course, in the real
>world, that depends on how the spec has been implimented). The uuid can
be
>sequentialised and can gauranteed to be unique to a high degree of
>certainty in time and space. There are no locking or contention issues
>when a uuid is generated opposed to a heavily used key generator.
>I stand by my assertion that a uuid is a viable and justifiable
solution
>in the original posters problem space. ;-)
>Cheers, Stuart
>
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>>This would still make things "vulnerable" whenever date/time changed
>>on
>>the generating machine .... the "beauty" of the sequential ID is that
>>fact that nit WILL be in "real time" order, regardless of what people
>>do
>>with dae & time of the machine
>
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