PS.
I had to strengthen the srand() function I added to the startup.pl that
Cosimo suggested. I used the example from the perldoc and have not had any
duplicate keys so far. I was having upwards of 3 per 1000 when using
srand(time ^ $$)
Fix added to startup.pl file
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about it and generate completely unique keys. When a line is added in
one database it is advertised to all others, the linking between lines in
diff tables is easier this way too.
Thanks a ton gentlemen, you have saved me a great deal of time.
Anthony Esposito
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Anthony
In one of my programs I started to receive database errors for not having a
unique id. I generate unique ids for each of the mysql lines that I add to
the database. I realized that the perl variable $idNum was keeping the same
random string for multiple executions.
I created a test program to demo
