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Re:GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer by jstarfish on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:12PM (#25661719)
Back in the day, we were taught to use database constraints to validate user inputs.

Memory, storage and compute were also more limited, so there was an extra cost to over-spec.

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Re:GUIDs Are Not the Only Answer by postalrat on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:10PM (#25665825)
Isn't this still the best practice? I do it to prevent the possibility of invalid data.
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