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MS SQL tricks for uniqueidentifers or Guid and date time.

by brian on Oct.29, 2008, under mmsql

In MS SQL Server 2005 the following code is how to get a new uniqueidentifier, and the current date and time.

SELECT newid(),getdate()

Produces these results.

------------------------------------ -----------------------
125700F3-8FB8-496F-8EA4-35D9CB9E8415 2008-10-29 13:09:54.557
(1 row(s) affected)
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