On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:22:02PM -0400, Dave Carter spake thusly:
*] I need to generate a RANDOM UNIQUE number for every new record. Is there an
*] easy way to accomplish this inside of mySQL.
*]
The way I do this for session ids is through a perl function that I
wrote a long time ago. Essentially I create a really long string of
mixed case alpha characters and numeric digits.
I suppose you could use the same method from perl for record "numbers."
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