tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822536077160579260.post5282444781235870204..comments2023-06-05T14:25:52.227+01:00Comments on Sound Code: Identity or UniqueIdentifier (GUID) for Database Key?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17900587357903273800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6822536077160579260.post-21445214998227019252009-06-02T02:20:19.053+01:002009-06-02T02:20:19.053+01:00MySQL also provides shorter GUIDs, or Universal Un...MySQL also provides <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/miscellaneous-functions.html#function_uuid-short" rel="nofollow">shorter GUIDs, or Universal Unique ID</a> as the term used by them.<br /><br />What you can do is use both a shorter ID and an understandable item name etc. to have nice looking URLs.<br /><br />Cheers.tayfunhttp://blog.tayfunsen.comnoreply@blogger.com