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 More options Oct 18 2012, 10:49 am
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
From: ralph <nt_consultin...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:49:50 -0500
Local: Thurs, Oct 18 2012 10:49 am
Subject: Re: Time Tenth & Hundredths
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:23:38 +0200, Schmidt <s...@online.de> wrote:

<snipped>

>The nice side-effect (e.g. when used in DB-Tables as the
>Record-identifier or Primary-Key) is, that you ensure a
>"timely-sort" of the records you add to a table pretty
>much automatically - and that this UniqueID (this primary
>key of the record) is always interpretable also as a
>VB-DateTime-stamp on the client-side (and so you have
>the creation-time of the record always available).

>Not sure, what BeeJ is using that for - but the approach is
>known and useful.

That fact that we don't know what the OP is using it for, nor the
environment in which it plays, is a key and limiting factor to any
advice.

Your emphasis on "timely-sort" is note-worthy. Given the OP's
propensity for linear and asynchronous solutions it is possible it is
being used to monitor concurrency.

-ralph


 
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