Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/16/05 01:11

Eugene Anthony (solomon_13000@yahoo.com) writes:
> Is there a limitation of using:
>
> set @sessionID = NEWID()
>
> would there be a simular NEWID() being generated if used in a database
> application.

It's not exactly clear what you are asking, but if I take wild guess
and the question is whether the same GUID can be generated twice, the
answer is that the likelyhood for this is negligible, 2^-128 is a
very small number.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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