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    <p>I had a similar situation but was generating the string in the code then sending it to the DB. Of course this is used on a very small table so I was not to worried about speed. Thought it might help, though it assumes you are using c#.</p> <pre><code> /// Generates a string and checks for existance /// &lt;returns&gt;Non-existant string as ID&lt;/returns&gt; public static string GetRandomNumbers(int numChars, string Type) { string result = string.Empty; bool isUnique = false; while (!isUnique) { //Build the string result = MakeID(numChars); //Check if unsued isUnique = GetValueExists(result, Type); } return result; } /// Builds the string public static string MakeID(int numChars) { string random = string.Empty; string[] chars = { "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z" }; Random rnd = new Random(); for (int i = 0; i &lt; numChars; i++) { random += chars[rnd.Next(0, 35)]; } return random; } /// Checks database tables based on type for existance, if exists then retry /// &lt;returns&gt;true or false&lt;/returns&gt; private static bool GetValueExists(string value, string Type) { bool result = false; string sql = ""; if (Type == "URL") { sql = string.Format(@"IF EXISTS (SELECT COUNT(1) FROM myTable WHERE uniqueString = '{0}') BEGIN SELECT 1 END ELSE BEGIN SELECT 0 END ", value); } //query the DB to see if it's in use result = //ExecuteSQL return result; } </code></pre>
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