Comments on: Storing ColdFusion G/UUIDs in MS SQL Server

By: “it could be bunnies” » Blog Archive » Converting a CF application from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL?

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:10:55 +0000

[...] At Prisma IT we have an application that has been under constant development for 2 years. Over that time it has seen lots of feature creep and changing requirements, and no refactoring. As you can imagine that doesn’t make for pretty code or an optimal database model. Due to a retargeting of that application and a much more focused requirements process we are finally getting ready to start reworking that application. Over the past month I have been working on and off (mostly in the train on my way to clients) on putting more structure in the long list with things we (I) really would like to change about the technology of the application. I have also been running some experiments on the code to see what the impact of certain changes would be. Amongst others this includes the experiments with changing the datatype used in MS SQL Server to store ColdFusion UUIDs. [...]

By: Orange is my favorite color » Blog Archive » Converting from UUIDs to GUIDs

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:20:35 +0000

[...] been reading through a handful of Jochem’s posts about Adobe’s (incompatible with the standard 35-character) UUID and [...]

By: “it could be bunnies” » Blog Archive » Querying MS SQL Server G/UUIDs from ColdFusion

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:24:47 +0000

[...] the previous part I have shown that the datatype you use in MS SQL Server has major consequences for the database [...]

By: duncan

duncan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:09:28 +0000

very interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever used the UniqueIdentifier datatype; all our UUIDs are stored as varchars. I’ll wait for your second instalment before making any changes to our tables!