Motivation
In this blog I last discussed how to generate unique timestamps and earlier I introduced a Java UDF to generate globally unique identifiers (uuid) . The former naturally produces timestamps, while the later produces a binary string. But what if what you need is a number? Of course both timestamps and binary strings can be represented as numbers. But these will be very long.For example a naive representation of a timestamp could be the number 20120303070659765345. This is too long even for a bigint. Certainly you would not want to...
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Interesting SQL solutions for DB2 LUW as well as hints on how to move Oracle applications to DB2
