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		cwyers on June 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys As opposed to the insanity of storing UUIDs as strings at all? Once you start going into the rabbit hole, you better be prepared to go all the way down.

bitJericho on June 9, 2017 [–]

No doubt. You can store them as INTs! Tho it does get a little hairy dealing with the conversion with MySQL.

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