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by stephenr 916 days ago
> a native UUID type so I don't have to write functions that convert 16bit binary to textual representation and back when examining the data manually on the server

MySQL 8 adds the `BIN_TO_UUID()` function (and the inverse, UUID_TO_BIN), and supports the quasi-standard bit swapping trick to handle time-based UUID's in indexed columns.