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I am confused how this is new. UUIDv1 is time based, you just need to be careful about entropy, and in MySQL 8 you can for a longish time use it as an ordered f

I am confused how this is new. UUIDv1 is time based, you just need to be careful about entropy, and in MySQL 8 you can for a longish time use it as an ordered field.

8organicbits 3y ago
The use of a MAC address and fine grained timestamp are challenges of UUIDv1. https://blog.devgenius.io/analyzing-new-unique-identifier-formats-uuidv6-uuidv7-and-uuidv8-d6cc5cd7391a?gi=e90b435d8f84 https://blog.devgenius.io/analyzing-new-unique-identifier-fo...
- oittaa 3y ago
  And the crazy epoch instead the more known Unix epoch. Why would anyone want to create UUIDs around year 1500?
- coolgoose 3y ago
  Sure, hence why I said entropy, but it's not like you can't use it :)