The heading of your post implies you want to use it as an Id (like an autonumber), in which a GUID type (I think is stands for Global Unique Identifier) as used in replication sets may do the trick
If it is to be a number with arithmetic performed on it, consider double or maybe currency
Regards
Ken Reay
Freelance Solutions Developer
Boldon Information Systems Ltd
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