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From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Fixed length datatypes. WAS [GENERAL] UUID's as
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Msg-id 20060629163256.GJ17241@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Fixed length datatypes. WAS [GENERAL] UUID's as  (Thomas Hallgren <thomas@tada.se>)
Responses Re: Fixed length datatypes. WAS [GENERAL] UUID's as  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:12:32AM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> The split make sense since clients often have powerful UUID utilities handy 
> and hence have limited or no use for such utilities in the database (true 
> for all .NET and Java clients). Some PL's will also enable such packages 
> out of the box.

I agree about splitting the utilities, except that I think the database
should be able to generate UUIDs somehow.
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