What is a guid?
In general, GUID is an acronym that stands for “globally unique identifier”. The guid inside PunkBuster is used to identify players with something more solid than their playing name or IP address. Your guid is loosely based on the cdkey that was used to install the game on your computer. When Server Admins kick or ban a player from their server(s), PunkBuster uses the player’s guid to enforce the kick/ban. Since it is based on the game installation, it is a better way to identify individual players than by looking at their IP address or playing name. For those concerned about privacy, PunkBuster uses a 128-bit one-way hash (a mathematical function) to generate the guid from the cdkey so that no one can figure out or compute your cdkey by knowing your guid.
• Why did replication change all my AutoNumber fields to Random Increment? The default behavior of AutoNumber fields, which is to increment by 1 each time a record is added, would not work in a replicated application. If it did, each member of the replica set would be producing new records independently of each other with identical primary key values, causing duplicate primary key errors on every synchronization. So when you make a replica out of a regular database, this behavior is automatically changed to a randomly incrementing value, which greatly reduces the likelihood of two replicas assigning the same primary key value. If you are using AutoNumber both as a primary key value and to number records sequentially, where the numbers are important in a business context (such as an invoice number), then you need to consider other alternatives before converting your database into a replica. One possible alternative scheme is to create a custom AutoNumber routine that assigns numbers usi
