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How to get machine independent unique id??

How to get machine independent unique id??

2006-06-02 - By Paul B van den Berg

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On 6/1/06, Neeraj <neeraj@(protected)> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to get a unique ids across all databases (by any way) ,
> because records from all the databases are finally get stored on a central
> database. And the ids of transaction (a record) must remain unique in
> central database.
>
The easiest way, without any replication setup, might be to give all your client
databases a unique database_id.
Then in your central database
database_id.client_transaction_id
is guaranteed unique.

Regards, Paul

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