How to auto generate uuid in cassandra CQL 3 command line

Question

Just learning cassandra, is there a way to insert a UUID using CQL, ie

create table stuff (uid uuid primary key, name varchar);
insert into stuff (name) valu         


        

Answer 1

As of Cassandra 2.0.7 you can just use uuid(), which generates a random type 4 UUID:

INSERT INTO users(uid, name) VALUES(uuid(), 'my name');