On 9/13/08, Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:43:16AM -0700, Robert Hodges wrote: > > Some of the previous data type conversations reminded me of a question > > that's been on my mind for a while. What do you think of dropping > > auto-increment keys and replacing them completely with UUIDs? > > > > Depends on how you use them... we do horizontal scaling in NDB and we > deal with auto inc fine (we prefetch batches of them). So if you were more > cloud like, there is no reason why you couldn't have something like this > plugged into the sql server. > > But having UUIDs as an alternative is win :)
Agreed on both counts. Jeremy
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