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by jstewartmobile 2961 days ago
If you do GUID PK or clustered index in an RDBMS, probably want to turn it into a monotonic GUID.

Many DBs order the table by PK. If the GUID value moves backward, that's a slow insert into the middle instead of a fast append to the end.

https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/17212