How to generate/autoincrement guid on insert without triggers and manual inserts in mysql?

Question

Im revisiting my database and noticed I had some primary keys that were of type INT.

This wasn\'t unique enough so I thought I would have a guid. I come from a mic

Answer 1

As far as stated in the documentation, you can use uid() as a column default starting version 8.0.13, so something like this should work:

create table tbl_test (
    guid binary(16) default (uuid_to_bin(uuid())) not null primary key,
    name varchar(50) not null
);

This is pretty much copied from the documentation. I don't have a recent enough version of MySQL at hand to test this.