[junek]

Sometimes I feel bad when I generate a UUID without using it for anything. Like I've wasted it.

[evan_]

You're not the only one who feels this way: https://wasteaguid.info/

[puttycat]

This is just perfect.

[extraduder_ire]

There's enough of them that you're saving a scarcer resource by not recording it anywhere.

[netcraft]

how bad do you feel about all the uuids you didnt generate so were never born?

[banku_brougham]

At work our clickstream data carries an 'event_uuid' column which combines uuid, bigint, account numbers and about 10 other identifiers. It makes joining really convenient when you don't know what column to use.

[billpg]

I once used `SELECT TOP 1` ... `ORDER BY NEWID()` to pick a record from a table of millions.

Millions of UUIDs generated! All so one would randomly be picked as the lowest valued and the attached record returned. Such a waste!

[zoky]

Seriously, this just seems like a frivolous waste of a precious and rapidly dwindling resource…