Forum Post: RE: GUID or not?

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No need to use GUID(GENERATE-UUID), just GUID is enough. Besides a separate guid-generator wrapper class / method or whatever you call it can be handy. The 36 char guid as primary key has a performance trade-off that could be improved in the future. See f.e. www.codeproject.com/.../GUIDs-as-fast-primary-keys-under-multiple-database and the recent disussions on the clustered index / comb guid on the peg.

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