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Again, I'm not arguing that UUIDs aren't a powerful tool. But the article points out two problems with them - they're inconveniently long when you expose them t
by mark-r 12y ago
Again, I'm not arguing that UUIDs aren't a powerful tool. But the article points out two problems with them - they're inconveniently long when you expose them to the user, and they lead to a fragmented database because they're not generated in order. If those problems matter to you, then you look for an alternative. If they don't, then the UUID is the go-to solution.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoVery true. Some help: Inside a self-consistent database you might index the UUIDs and use the index internally to link them other places. Or something like that. Its work. If more use were made of UUIDs, databases would handle them better and that's probably going to happen.