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  1. Dec 17th, 2001, 01:25 PM #1
    Lafor
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    Unique IDs

    Hi all!

    Would anyone have an algorithm to create unique Ids from a combination of LAST Names ,FIRST Names , Address and City fields?


    All ideas are welcome...

    Thanks in advance...
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  2. Dec 17th, 2001, 01:35 PM #2
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    our company uses 5 and 2... first 5 letters of the last name.. first 2 letters of the first name... once a duplicate is encountered, they simply add an incrimenting number on the ID

    as in

    Joe Jackson

    jacksjo
    jacksjo1
    jacksjo2

    if you are looking for more unique than that then you would have to go into the address info and all that. The only reason I am not too keen on that is becuase people tend to move a lot... using their address for an ID isn't always good.
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