The Problem with Using a UUID Primary Key in MySQL

3 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by rareitem

1 Comments

elmerfud

13 hours ago

One approach I didn't see discussed here is storing the UUID across 2 columns as 2 64 bit integers and forming a composite primary key. There's still tradeoffs with this as with all the methods but depending on use case it's viable way to do it.