Guid Primary Keys are Revolutionised in SQL Server 2005

16 September, 2004 (15:43) | SQL Server

Jimmy Nilsson blogs about the new NEWSEQUENTIALID() function in SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) which provides an incremental GUID generator and hence the long overdue answer to uniqueidentifier as a primary key. While the importance of this may well be lost on non database oriented people, this function alone will revolutionise our choice of table primary keys.

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