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New article “Using UUID in Firebird” New article “Using UUID in Firebird” by D. Simonov covers practical approaches to working with UUIDs in Firebird without core modifications.

New article “Using UUID in Firebird” by D. Simonov covers practical approaches to working with UUIDs in Firebird without core modifications.

Topics include storing UUIDs as BINARY(16), generating them via GEN_UUID(), converting between binary and character forms, UUID v4 vs v7 comparison, index efficiency analysis, and Firebird 6.0 improvements.

A must-read for developers designing distributed-friendly primary keys in Firebird databases.

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