customer ids
| From: | blueboy | Date: | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:40:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | customer ids | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi,
I want to create random customer ids. I have an auto incremented coulumn but
I would rather have a 6-8 digit/letter id randomly generated that can be
used as a unique identifier across 3 tables. Does anyone have a algorithm to
generate such a string and can you give the odds against 2 duplicate stings
being generated?
I know this is a strange ask.
R.