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

as you're asking for a theory i'm wondering what should be dealt with do you mean something like errorcorrection or -detection of unique numbers or something similar? "Lior Messinger" <messingr@netvision.net.il> 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.