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by Spidler 3667 days ago
UUID internally is a 128 bit integer. Cheap as hell to sort.
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treebeard901 3667 days ago
To be fair, most of my experience with UUID/GUID is with SQL Server, and in that case it's stored as a 16-byte binary. Character string format: '6F9619FF-8B86-D011-B42D-00C04FC964FF' Binary format: 0xff19966f868b11d0b42d00c04fc964ff
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