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Primary Keys: IDs versus GUIDs

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Long-time readers of this blog know that I have an inordinate fondness for GUIDs. Each globally unique ID is like a beautiful snowflake: every one a unique item waiting to be born. Perhaps that’s why I read with great interest recent accounts of people switching their database tables

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