Auto increment is a terrible idea

Re:Auto increment is a terrible idea by dragonwriter on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:30PM (#15820631)

You can store them as bytes and use a function to convert them to/from a display format (which is what DBs with a built in UUID type do under the covers.)

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Re:Auto increment is a terrible idea by 33degrees on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:42PM (#15864783)

Yes, and I've done that in the past; it's still somewhat laborious though.

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