The Quick Guide to GUIDs
Our world is numbered. Books have ISBNs and products have barcodes. Cars have VINs, even people have social security numbers.
Numbers help us reference items unambiguously. “John Smith” may be many people, but Social Security Number 123-45-6789 refers to one person exactly.
A GUID (globally unique identifier) is a bigger, badder version of this type of ID number. You may see the …Crowd Favorites
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