Thanks Bill.
I discovered that 8.3 supports a UUID datatype. Thus a CREATE DOMAIN
uniqueidentifier AS uuid works fine for the aliasing. There are no SQL
Server style functions for UUID creation but I can handle this in the client
code. Works a treat.
Jerry
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