← Back to context Comment by junek 1 year ago Sometimes I feel bad when I generate a UUID without using it for anything. Like I've wasted it. 7 comments junek Reply evan_ 1 year ago You're not the only one who feels this way: https://wasteaguid.info/ puttycat 1 year ago This is just perfect. extraduder_ire 1 year ago There's enough of them that you're saving a scarcer resource by not recording it anywhere. netcraft 1 year ago how bad do you feel about all the uuids you didnt generate so were never born? banku_brougham 1 year ago 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 1 year ago 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 1 year ago Seriously, this just seems like a frivolous waste of a precious and rapidly dwindling resource…
evan_ 1 year ago You're not the only one who feels this way: https://wasteaguid.info/ puttycat 1 year ago This is just perfect.
extraduder_ire 1 year ago There's enough of them that you're saving a scarcer resource by not recording it anywhere.
banku_brougham 1 year ago 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 1 year ago 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 1 year ago Seriously, this just seems like a frivolous waste of a precious and rapidly dwindling resource…
You're not the only one who feels this way: https://wasteaguid.info/
This is just perfect.
There's enough of them that you're saving a scarcer resource by not recording it anywhere.
how bad do you feel about all the uuids you didnt generate so were never born?
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.
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!
Seriously, this just seems like a frivolous waste of a precious and rapidly dwindling resource…