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Re:GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer by withinboredom on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:46PM (#25652277)
GUID v6 is pretty nice when you need monotonously increasing numbers that are globally unique.

On another note, I worked somewhere that prefixed GUIDs with the environment the app was running on. All of production, staging, even dev machines all used the same connection string.

There was even a stored procedure to copy user accounts, etc of prod for your machine. It was hands-down the best debugging experience when a customer had an issue.

Re:GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer by asidiali on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:02PM (#25652451)
That sounds very scary, but also, extremely freeing.

No more permissions to deal with! But also...no more permissions to deal with...

Re:GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer by spc476 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:26PM (#25666528)
I'm only aware of versions 1 through 5. Where is v6 defined?
Re:GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer by folkrav on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:53PM (#25667100)
I think this is what he's referring to[1]

[1] http://gh.peabody.io/uuidv6/