On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, John Halleck wrote:
> > [... Unique Record ID's ...]
> > >http://rubens.its.unimelb.edu.au/~pgm/uisic/exchange/exchprop.html
"nnnnn
a numeric serial number, being an agreed fixed length for a given
entity, and padded left with zeros. Unique within a given aa and
bbb. See Entity List below for
"
Making the number field a fixed size puts in assumptions about sizes.
Why do this? (I.E. I don't see any advantage to this, and there are
obvious problems with it, so I think I missed something.)
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