Stefan,

Feel free to stand on the sidelines while everyone else throws stones.

samalex (10/18/2010)

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Hope you guys don't mind me chiming in... We're working on a new system now, and my goal is to have a globally unique ID (whether INT or UNIQUEIDENTIFIER)...

CirquedeSQLeil (10/18/2010)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/18/2010)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/18/2010)

I think most trees are brown on the outside with a topcoat (needles or leaves) that may or may...

Brandie Tarvin (10/18/2010)

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Ahem. Trees are brown (some are white). The leaves (or needles) are green.

There's a difference. @=)

EDIT: Opps. Missed your rebuttal....

Paul White NZ (10/18/2010)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/18/2010)

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Jason (10/18/2010)I think most trees are brown on the outside with a topcoat (needles or leaves) that may or may not be...

Tell that to any...

Alvin,

Stay out of the post office out there. Sounding dangerous in dem dere parts: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20101018/US.Post.Office.Shooting/

Aren't most trees green?

The color doesn't matter. I think there's a sentiment here that makes sense, but like most advocacy groups, they take it to an extreme. They are no...

I have used GUIDs in similar situations to what Grant has. When you have offline work, or remote clients that need to generate a "key" of some sort for a...

tdennis-674196 (10/17/2010)

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I've been thinking about this issue for a few days. Like everyone, I accept that using a single integer field is going to be the best performance, but...

I tend to agree with Bill in that you rise to the occasion and look to improve things. Try to find the best in the situation and improve things.

However, I...

Alvin Ramard (10/18/2010)

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Jeff Moden (10/17/2010)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/14/2010)

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The green value, if there is one, comes not from you getting ebooks, but from 1000s of people doing this. Less...

There are some articles here:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/

Might try these:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/70129/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/63042/

Doh! Forgot to setup 3 positions and still within 20 points. Guess it's time for an Outlook reminder.

I was just wondering if each location could generate sequentials from .NET. They wouldn't be all sequential, but you'd get "bunches" from each location, and that might limit, not eliminate,...