Question

I am trying to create a table which is unique and has primary key. I know in sqlite we can develop Unique AUTOINCREMENT ID SQL AUTOINCREMENT, but is it possible to generate Unique GUID which is 36 chars long. The only reason to do that is to make it more unique.

Answer 1

This is the bit of code I use for UUIDs (I may have even found it here on Stack Overflow)…

+ (NSString *)GetUUID
{
    CFUUIDRef theUUID = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
    CFStringRef string = CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, theUUID);
    CFRelease(theUUID);
    return [(NSString *)string autorelease];
}

I don’t know how long the UUIDs generated are because in the ways I use it I don’t care so perhaps check that by passing the result into a NSLog call.

HTH, Pedro 🙂