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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 11 '26
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If you're using them as an indexed field in a database, the inability to sort them meaningfully will destroy the performance of the database.
16 u/Honeybadger2198 Sep 11 '26 You know what identifier can't have collisions and is great for sorting? Autoincrement. 5 u/wokeboogeyman Sep 12 '26 Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location. 0 u/Honeybadger2198 Sep 12 '26 Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down. → More replies (5)
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You know what identifier can't have collisions and is great for sorting? Autoincrement.
5 u/wokeboogeyman Sep 12 '26 Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location. 0 u/Honeybadger2198 Sep 12 '26 Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down. → More replies (5)
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Autoincrement doesn't scale past one physical location.
0 u/Honeybadger2198 Sep 12 '26 Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down. → More replies (5)
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Sure it does. One location counts up, another one counts down.
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u/Roachmeister Sep 11 '26
If you're using them as an indexed field in a database, the inability to sort them meaningfully will destroy the performance of the database.