UUID-Field Construction in the UUID Tool

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UUID-Field Construction in the UUID Tool

In the UUID tool, the Group attribute of the UUID-Fields forms the virtual bridge. You create UUID-Fields with given Group attributes in the Master Database for each type of information that you want to use. You then create UUID-Fields with identical Group attributes in the User Databases that contain the same type of information that you want to relate to the information in the Master Database. The functions may vary in structure for the identical Groups in each database, but the goal is to construct the same data set using the available fields in the databases. In our simple example, the databases looks as follows:

Database 1 UUID-Fields

Name	Group	Function
Database 1_Ex	Phone	Telephone

Database 2 UUID-Fields

Name	Group	Function
Database 2_Ex	Phone	<Area Code>-<Phone Number>

Each database contains a UUID-Field with a Group called Phone. The Functions for each Group vary in structure but the outcome is identical. In the case of the example a phone number that is in the form <Area Code>-<Phone Number>.