Recommendations on using SQL Server GUID from MS Access

Question

I\'m upsizing an existing MS Access backend to SQL Server 2008 and, because we want to use SQL Server Merge replication, I\'ll have to change all current primary keys (curre

Answer 1

This may be slightly off-topic. However, you do not HAVE to use GUIDs to do merge replication. You can still use your auto-increment integers and allocate different ranges to different database instances. This way rows with identical IDs will not be generated.

Also, there is only one GUID type field in SQL 2008 - uniqueidentifier