Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be?
by wodenokoto on Saturday November 01, 2014 @12:09AM
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Actually I think that is the biggest problem with the article. It gives you no way to asses which probability is good enough.
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Re:How long do GUIDs really need to be?
by zackbloom on Saturday November 01, 2014 @02:55AM
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I think thats a business decision, not a technical one. You have to decide what odds you are willing to accept, based on how many records you anticipate, how hard it will be to increase the length if that estimation is wrong, and how bad it would be if there was a collision.
In any case though, there are certainly many bad things which could happen to your company which are more likely than 1 in a million.