Mysql 8.0: UUID support
In MySQL 8.0.0 we introduced many new features; among those, three new functions that ease and enhance the support for working with UUIDs.
Background
A UUID is just a 128-bit value and it is usually represented in human-readable format as an UTF8 string composed of 5 groups of hexadecimal characters separated by dashes.…
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