Re: UUIDs - first usage for me

[Christian Parpart]

On Saturday 17 September 2005 08:34, Gleb Paharenko wrote:
> mysql> show create table ui\G;
>
> *************************** 1. row ***************************
>
> Table: ui
>
> Create Table: CREATE TABLE `ui` (
>
> `uuid()` varchar(36) NOT NULL default ''

I've been testing your example as I feel really much safer with UUIDs instead 
of auto_increments, however, my column datatype is VARCHAR(12) so 24bytes 
shorter than a usual UUID, although, all uuid() SELECTs differ only in first 
12 bytes - why?

Regards,
Christian Parpart.

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