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Re:Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys by cwyers on Friday June 09, 2017 @03:56PM (#14523997)
As opposed to the insanity of storing UUIDs as strings at all? Once you start going into the rabbit hole, you better be prepared to go all the way down.
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Re:Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys by bitJericho on Friday June 09, 2017 @04:02PM (#14524046)
No doubt. You can store them as INTs! Tho it does get a little hairy dealing with the conversion with MySQL.
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