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And it's much easier for that person to mishear/miskey that ID and work on the wrong record. With a random UUID you will not have that mistake unless you have s

And it's much easier for that person to mishear/miskey that ID and work on the wrong record. With a random UUID you will not have that mistake unless you have some seriously huge data. Base64 encode it everywhere and it's 22 characters.

fastball 7y ago
Even with the world's largest dataset, I don't think you will experience an "off-by-one" error with the UUID4 standard.