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Sometimes I feel bad when I generate a UUID without using it for anything. Like I've wasted it.
by junek 2y ago
Sometimes I feel bad when I generate a UUID without using it for anything. Like I've wasted it.
- evan_ 2y agoYou're not the only one who feels this way: https://wasteaguid.info/ https://wasteaguid.info/
- puttycat 2y agoThis is just perfect.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoThere's enough of them that you're saving a scarcer resource by not recording it anywhere.
- netcraft 2y agohow bad do you feel about all the uuids you didnt generate so were never born?
- banku_brougham 2y agoAt work our clickstream data carries an 'event_uuid' column which combines uuid, bigint, account numbers and about 10 other identifiers. It makes joining really convenient when you don't know what column to use.
- zoky 2y agoSeriously, this just seems like a frivolous waste of a precious and rapidly dwindling resource…
- billpg 2y agoI once used `SELECT TOP 1` ... `ORDER BY NEWID()` to pick a record from a table of millions. Millions of UUIDs generated! All so one would randomly be picked as the lowest valued and the attached record returned. Such a waste!