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<Joe>
I disagree with that one. You simply describe the field as a UUID. You'd
then have to go out of your way to tell the auditors that it is sequentially
generated.
</Joe>
UUIDs might have collisions, rather seldom, depending on implementation, but
it could happen! We tested this out, some years ago. Running on AS/400 (the
V5R2 implementation used a combination of MAC adress and timestamp) with
multiple fast processors and heavy transactional, masive parallel workload ,
we've got collisions in every run. More recent implementations are using a
combination of timestamp and some random number, taht's better, but could
produce collisions running on diffrent systems.
D*B
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