UUID Primary IDs and MySQL
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This post from the MySQL Server Team is an interesting approach to handling UUIDs in MySQL. The primary takeaway is to convert the UUID to a binary data type by removing the "-" characters and performing unhex() on the UUID. Here is another post on storing UUIDs in MySQL from percona.com, emphasizing the memory savings of using the UUID-to-Binary approach.
I recently added visitor logging which I described in this post and wanted to use UUID Primary Keys. I liked the unhex() / binary approach but felt that retrieving binary values isn't as straightforward as I liked. So I simply removed the UUID "-" characters and saved the field as a char(32) data type. You could have used a binary(32) data type here, but storage requirements are essentially the same.
My IDs then look like this.
And insert statement like this.
I didn't end up saving any memory, but I think this is a cleaner approach and I can retrieve records the old fashioned way.
select * from client_info where id = '065b4ef72c7411e89af710feed849ea9';Recommend
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