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From Scott Ribe
Subject Re: UUID column as pimrary key?
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Msg-id 780FB717-BF19-4789-B862-21343CAA26C6@elevated-dev.com
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In response to Re: UUID column as pimrary key?  (Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>)
Responses Re: UUID column as pimrary key?  (Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>)
Re: UUID column as pimrary key?  (Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>)
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On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Radosław Smogura wrote:

> * simple to generate, and 128bit random is almost globally unique,

Almost? Should be totally unique, as long as your random source is decent quality.

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