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SQL example creating table with auto-increment.

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There are four versions of UUIDs.

• UUID1 uses MAC address and timestamp to generate effective uniqueness.

• UUID3 and UUID 5 uses cryptographic hashing and application-provided text strings to generate UUID. (UUID 3 uses MD5 hashing, and UUID 5 uses SHA-1 hashing).

• UUID4 uses pseudo-random number generators to generate UUID.

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MySQL’s Replace Into Statement can help to make MySQL auto-increment work across multiple databases, set up a dedicated database with a single table and a single record whose sole purpose is to provide unique and incremental ID.

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--MySQL_1 CONFIGURATION
set @@auto_ increment_ Offset = 1; -- starting value
set @@auto_ increment_ Increment = 2; -- step size

--MySQL_2 CONFIGURATION
set @@auto_ increment_ Offset = 2; -- starting value
set @@auto_ increment_ Increment = 2; -- step size

Baidu UID generator

A thorough understanding of snowflake algorithm and Baidu meituan’s best practice | Develop Paper

SonyFlake generator

GitHub - sony/sonyflake: A distributed unique ID generator inspired by Twitter's Snowflake

TWITTER SNOWFLAKE GENERATOR

The maximum timestamp can be represented in 41 bits is :

2^41 -1 = 219902325551 milliseconds (ms) which gives : approx. 69 years = 219902325551 ms / 1000 / 365 days / 24 hours / 36 seconds.