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At some point those sequential integer ID's will become so long they might as well be GUIDs. Of course you could "compress" the integer using some kind of encod
by spookthesunset 4y ago
At some point those sequential integer ID's will become so long they might as well be GUIDs. Of course you could "compress" the integer using some kind of encoding scheme similar to base64. Then your long integer becomes a few characters.
... Maybe though. Even ID's in the millions are probably easier to read than a long ass GUID.
- yellowapple 4y ago> At some point those sequential integer ID's will become so long they might as well be GUIDs Worth bearing in mind that an unsigned 32-bit integer sequence can uniquely identify 4,294,967,295 records. If you're really storing that many records (let alone enough to exhaust an even bigger integer sequence), the length of the identifier is probably the least of your worries :)