Comments: Using UUIDs as Primary Keys

By poppitypop on 18/6/08

1 - What is this?

What is a UUID? What does it stand for? This should be explained!

By jonathansnook on 1/7/08

2 - Rewritten

This section has been written to clarify.

By uldericofilho on 16/9/08

3 - UUID are replication friendly

UUID primary id's not only can be used to guarantee uniqueness among different systems, but also as a pratical way to have mysql shard's storing info between different servers and doing replication between them, avoiding primary id collisions.

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