Storing MySQL GUID/UUIDs

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Published on 2009-02-13T18:27:39Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 21:02 UTC
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This is the best way I could come up with to convert a MySQL GUID/UUID generated by UUID() to a binary(16):

UNHEX(REPLACE(UUID(),'-',''))

And then storing it in a BINARY(16)

Are there any implications of doing it this way that I should know of?

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