Saturday, March 27, 2010

Re: short uuid with about 10 byte?

UUID are not meant to be figures that humans are supposed to memorise.
If the field/column is one that a person will be entering data for,
UUID is probably a bad fit.

On Mar 27, 5:13 am, mivogt-LU <c...@mivogt.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I want to do some autmated customer number/id field within my project.
> I found the uuid function but it seems to be hard for a customer and a
> staff doing that a long number to identify.
>
> Is there any thing like the uuid but shorter as I will never need to
> handle millions of customers...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> CU
>
> Michael

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