Re: Creating and saving IDs - is there a theory?

Hi ! You have not provided much information about your "project". But it seems to me that you are looking for some kind of inventory control software. If so, there are a lot of Off-the-shelf inventory control packages out there. Is there any reason why these are overlooked ? If this is a fairly small adventure, may be you could pull something together with Microsoft Access . Good luck Chaminda Peries On 31 Mar 1997, Lior Messinger wrote: > Hi, > > We are designing a project where we need to create, save and then verify > huge amounts of IDs (or serial numbers), for inventory items. We need to do > the saving part and the verification very fast, on a server. This is done > to verify that the items are not faked. The project is done on NT and Unix. > Is there any theory about doing that? > We thought of saving the IDs in a database, where each item belongs to one > user. Have you heard of something that was done in this way? Any ideas of > your own? If we take the database approach, what is the most suitable > database to do that? Would it be a relational database, or else? > > So many questions... > > Thank you very much for _any_ answer, > Lior Messinger. >